Communist leader Bernardino Soares on Sunday accused the Republic’s prime minister and president of “supreme hypocrisy” and called on the party to rise up against the propaganda of “false inevitability”.
“They are trying to convince us that to stop inflation the only solution is to raise interest rates, causing recession, increasing unemployment. It is the purest foundation of capitalism,” the former leader of the Communist Party said. parliament in the National Conference vol. of the party, in Corroios, Seixal.
And then he pointed to the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic: “We recently heard Marcelo e Costa begging the European Central Bank not to continue raising rates. European Union.”
“This policy is not aimed at containing inflation,” the PCP Central Committee member insisted, but at “taking advantage of inflation to further concentrate wealth as always.”
The governor of the Bank of Portugal and former socialist finance minister at the time of the “secret”, Mário Centeno, was also criticized by Bernardino Soares for his “angelic” statement about the need for “a more conservative profit strategy” and for there to be there is “wage control”.
“They can go as far as they want, but what is essential is the wage increase,” insisted the former mayor of Loures.🇧🇷
Everything else is “false propaganda”, which is why he called on all communist militants to rise up against “false inevitability”.
Source: DN
