“Absolute majorities can do a lot, but they can do very little against social majorities. Social majorities move mountains, and even absolute majorities shake the world, and that’s why we’re here,” defended the blockist leader.
Catarina Martins spoke at the headquarters of Bloco de Esquerda, in Lisbon, at the end of ‘Inconformação’, a meeting of the youth of the party, when she took stock of the first year since the PS won the parliamentary elections with an absolute majority, which marks on Monday.
“Right now we have a year of absolute majority, sometimes it seems like much longer ago, I know. (…) A year of majority and what we have is the absolute uncertainty of the lives of those who live of their work in Portugal. A year of absolute majority and what we have is the absolute arrogance of those who do not listen to the country,” he criticized.
Catarina Martins continued, saying the government has shown “absolute disregard for the difficulties of those who make a living from their work”, an “absolute complicity in the privilege of the elite who always get more” and an “absolute inability to act on the land”. comment”. “. .
“You almost want to remind the PS of what António José Seguro said [antigo secretário-geral socialista]: that it is really mandatory to separate politics and business,” he said.
For the BE coordinator, “the ability to organize forces to claim a country with a future” is the “key” of the present times, and the solutions for the country.
Catarina Martins emphasized that “while politics and business are intertwined and it’s normal to spend millions either on a stage or on a TAP millionaires’ board or whatever, there’s a public school that asks all on the street for resources it does not have ” or a national health service ” that really fights for the continued existence of access to healthcare in Portugal and does not have all the resources “.
The BE coordinator also spoke about the housing crisis, saying that “today it is news that in other countries the prices” of houses “are falling, but not in Portugal”, and the justification, “they say, is because the supply is small”.
Catarina Martins stated that “the right always says it is necessary to build more, as if it does not see the number of empty houses that Portugal has, or as if it does not know the climatic danger of continuing to build, to build, without thinking of any organization “.
Or even, he continued, “as if you didn’t know that what is being built is housing for luxury segments, driven by a policy that makes Portugal a country of cheap labor services to welcome the elite privilege of the rest of the world” .
“This is the policy of brutality, inequality of the absolute majority. And when we see the right wing being very outraged case after case, let’s not be mistaken: all they want is to be able to sit in government to exactly to do the same.” like the majority of the PS,” he accused.
A little earlier, the young people present at the headquarters, in an audience also attended by Catarina Martins, took part in a session with the historian and university professor Manuel Loff, who will take up the mandate of deputy for the PCP in March, replacing of the communist Diana Ferreira.
On 30 January 2022, the PS won the early parliamentary elections with an absolute majority, electing 120 deputies, with the PSD in second place, with 77 parliamentarians. Chega got the third largest bench, with 12 delegates, followed by Iniciativa Liberal, with eight, PCP, with six, BE, with five, PAN, with one, and Livre, also with one.
Due to the repetition of elections in the circle of Europe, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, did not inaugurate the XXIII Constitutional Government, the third headed by António Costa, until March 30, 2022.
Source: DN
