Large dozens are currently marching on Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon, in a parade that started at two different points, Saldanha and Amoreiras.
This Saturday’s demonstration, organized by the CGTP, takes place the day after the civil service strike.
In the first intervention at Marquês de Pombal, Catarina Martins, coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda, again defended price controls. “Like what happened during the pandemic, why isn’t the government setting prices like it did with alcohol gel and masks?”, interrogated.
“What’s happening is people have less and less money to pay their bills,” he noted before leaving more criticism of the government: “They said wages would go up, but what happened was an increase in wages. wage bill. There are people who work for decades without a pay rise,” argued the blockade leader.
Meters below the leader of BE, another political party: Chega. Represented at the CGTP demonstration (central union traditionally influenced and associated with the PCP) by delegates Bruno Nunes and Rui Paulo Sousa. Surprise? “There is no.”
“Chega is not coming to a CGTP demonstration,” Bruno Nunes immediately clarifies. The party, he says, is in the parade this afternoon because “it is on the side of the people” and “concerned about the Portuguese”. In his statement, Bruno Nunes stressed that “when the Portuguese go to the supermarket, no one asks whether they are from the left or the right”, and that “successive socialist governments, supported by the PCP and the BE” have not been concerned. about the rise in the cost of living.
Source: DN
