On Tuesday, the President of the Assembly of the Republic believed that it would be worrying to make the length of a legislature depend on the results of the European elections. He said he understood teachers’ protests, but criticized the “anarcho-union” model of new unions.
These warnings were transferred by Augusto Santos Silva, socialist deputy elected by the Fora da Europa circle and former foreign minister and foreign minister, to the new podcast of the PS parliamentary group that will premiere this Tuesday.
When asked whether lawmakers are becoming increasingly dependent on the logic of election calendars, the President of the Assembly of the Republic rejected this, warning that it “make a worrying mistake that not only suggests that the length of the legislature depends on other elections – the so-called second-order elections, namely the European one -, but even suggests that the length of the legislature depends on the evolution of the polls”.
“That would be profoundly anti-democratic. Everyone knows that in four years’ time – and in this case four years with six years behind them – there will be polls that are more or less favorable. Order is also a time when the voter can express his distance from towards the government – the electorate that will later vote for the ruling party”to maintain.
Augusto Santos Silva then scored “European elections serve to elect members of the European Parliament, local elections serve to elect elected officials from municipalities, the regional elections already held this year in Madeira serve to elect the legislative assembly of that region”.
“Point”, the former foreign minister stressed, arguing that the government has “all the necessary conditions to comply with the legislature”.
“It has a majority in parliament, it has all the institutional co-operation of the other sovereign bodies – the President of the Republic and the Parliament – it has a program that was very recently supported by the people and therefore it has all the conditions. It is the government’s responsibility to take advantage of these unique conditions to implement its own program and respond to the problems the country feels”completed.
Regarding the teachers’ strike, the former education minister of the second executive led by António Guterres stressed that “it is a right” and “absolutely normal in a democracy” for this professional class to express its discontent.
“A negotiation process is underway – and that deserves a second salute from me, because in a democracy we not only listen to the people, but we also seek compromises with the people. A negotiation process in which the government has made very strong proposals . to solve problems that the unions point out”orphan.
Already in an indirect allusion to STOP (Union of All Education Professionals), the president of the Assembly of the Republic said that there are “unions that are sincerely involved in the negotiation process”, but that there are also “forms of manipulation of the strike” are.
According to Augusto Santos Silva, there are “more recent unions that see themselves as a somewhat outdated anarcho-union model”.
“I do not accept that one professional class outsources a strike to another to get what it wants, without that professional class having to go on strike. Wanting to finance another professional class so that schools close does not seem to me impermissible”he concluded.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic also criticized the ‘self-service’ strike model.
“It also seems to me ethically inadmissible – I do not know whether it is legal or not, the Attorney General’s Office will say – this form of the so-called self-service strike. That is, I strike when I want, at one time and not for a whole day, and without warning. The social struggle, which we socialists understand as one of the driving forces of democracy, has rules”defended.
In this conversation, the president of the Assembly of the Republic rejected the claim that he benefits Chega when he has direct debates with this political force.
“Whoever criticizes fights, who stands in the way is an accomplice?”he wondered, here in reference to the current leadership of the PSD.
Still in relation to Chega, Augusto Santos Silva advocated that he prefers to have all political currents in parliament, even those opposed to democracy.
Source: DN
