The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda opined on Friday that “there is no Democratic Alliance (AD) at all” but rather “a right-wing project” that brings together Pedro Passos Coelho, the PSD and Chega and that “will be defeated in the next elections “.
“There is a lot of talk about a new AD, to be honest there is no AD, there is a project that Passos Coelho has already taken over from an alliance between the PSD and Chega, that is what they did in the Azores “This is a project and the goal of the right,” said Mariana Mortágua when asked about the announcement of the electoral coalition between the PSD and the CDS-PP.
In Porto, during a visit to the newsroom Jornal de Noticias e do Jogo, the block leader also commented on the figures of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which indicate a surplus of 3.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP ) in the first nine months. months of the year, emphasizing that this surplus “has the downside of lack of investment” in areas such as health and education.
“The country knows what this right-wing project has done, this great family that brings together Pedro Passos Coelho, Luis Montenegro and André Ventura, they all came from the same party, they have the same project for the country, they were defeated after the elections. ‘troika’ because of the evil they have done to the country, and they will be defeated in the next elections,” he said.
According to Mariana Mortágua, “the right is a return to the past, the right has been defeated in the past and what is needed is to find conditions so that the country can imagine a future, and to imagine a future is to do things that have not yet are done.” finished”.
“The role of the left, since the right will not have a majority, is to find solutions for this country and to find solutions to the problems that matter. Housing issues, health issues, wages are important and freedom of communication is also of social importance,” he said. considered.
Faced with the budget surplus, the bloc leader criticized the PS in her response: “This means that over time this absolute majority of the PS has made a number of decisions, some of which had already been taken before, and preferred the idea of budget support. objectives that always go beyond what the objective was, to show Brussels, in short, objectives that are not investments in public services,” he stated.
However, according to Mariana Mortágua, these figures, presented as “a great victory”, “have a reverse side, and that reverse is the emergency departments that are closed, the lessons that students cannot attend because there are not enough teachers at school. The downside is the delays in the legal process, all the investments that have not been made and the lack of these investments is very expensive for the country.”
“When we talk about the right bills, we also have to remember that the right bills are also for health care and housing. Now if we talk about the right bills, everyone must do their part and we hope that EDP pays his taxes for the business millionaire from the dams he built that have not yet contributed to this surplus,” he said.
Source: DN
