PCP Secretary General Paulo Raimundo stressed on Friday that Parliament does not need more deputies to defend banks or economic groups, in response to the coalition between PSD and CDS-PP that preceded the elections.
“Deputies to defend the banks, deputies to defend economic groups, deputies to defend a certain kind of patronage, with which they want to burden the workers, because there are already a lot of them today and apparently they want them in the future more to come. “the PCP leader emphasized.
Paulo Raimundo was asked this Friday evening about the pre-electoral coalition between PSD and CDS-PP, during an initiative with workers from SGL Composites, in Barreiro, Setúbal district, and said that there is a lack of deputies to defend those who “Every day he works, produces wealth and makes the land work”.
“What worries me (…) is the result of the PCP and the CDU. This will be determined the day after the elections. The great urgency is to strengthen the PCP and the CDU, give them more strength, more votes and more deputies, because it is these deputies who make the difference”he emphasized.
The presidents of the PSD and CDS-PP will propose to the national bodies of their parties a pre-electoral coalition, the Democratic Alliance, for the parliamentary elections in March and the European elections in June, which will also include “independent personalities” .
The general secretary of the PCP also defended the valorization of shift workers during Barreiro’s initiative.
Paulo Raimundo recalled that the PCP presented this Wednesday in the Assembly of the Republic a project on shift work, with the aim of reducing this type of work to the indispensable limit and also valuing these workers with “a series of benefits to which they are entitled ”, regretting that the proposal was rejected.
“PS and PSD came together again to make these projects fail. But we will not give up on them, because they are honest”he assured.
“Unfortunately it seems that the government, again, and also the PSD, looked at it and thought it was not important to resolve it. What’s important is to keep forcing people to work shift after shift, seven days a week, 30 days a week. days a month, 365 days a year (…) without protecting workers’ rights”he further emphasized.
The PCP leader emphasized that this is a reality involving 1.8 million workers in Portugal.
Paulo Raimundo, still working in Portugal, highlighted that 3 million people earn up to 1,000 gross salaries per month, and stressed that the wage increase is “the great national emergency”, along with pensions.
Portugal will hold early parliamentary elections on March 10, 2024, scheduled by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, following the resignation of the Prime Minister, António Costa, on November 7, the target of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the Supreme Court.
The election campaign for the parliamentary elections will take place between February 25 and March 8.
Source: DN
