PCP calls for unity to combat the country's "disastrous path"

The Secretary-General of the PCP called this Friday, in Benavente, for unity among workers to combat the "disastrous path" that the country is taking, making harsh criticisms of the solutions presented by the Government, led by Luís Montenegro.

"Faced with calls for division and hatred, what all of us and the youth must do is respond with unity" and "once and for all we must fight this disastrous path," he stated.

Paulo Raimundo was speaking at the presentation session of the CDU candidates for the municipal bodies of the Municipality of Benavente, where he praised all those who dedicated themselves to that project, whether as elected officials or activists, making particular reference to Carlos Coutinho, the campaign leader for the municipality, and to the coalition allies who constitute the " united front that is the CDU ", the ecological party the Greens and the Associação Intervenção Democrática.

Emphasizing that "in the CDU, independents are not props, nor are they mere figures for photographs; they are protagonists and builders of this project. They are missed, they matter, and they are decisive, and we need more and more of them" in a country "hanging by a thread."

“The CDU is a space of very diverse people, of people who may have taken different positions [in previous elections], may have voted for this or that party and supported this or that force, but they know, from their own experience, what the CDU's management means and what it is worth and what it represents, the work carried out at the heart of its action and with its eyes set on the future.”

Here “there is work, competence and people connected to life (…) and reality as it is, and not as they try to make us sell it”, he stressed.

"Here, unlike a significant part of the country, there is no illusion and no selling of snake oil," he reinforced, adding: "we have a country that is hanging by wires," referring to the "housing drama, with unbearable costs," the lack of professionals in the National Health Service, and the lack of teachers and staff in public schools.

And "faced with this, the path they present to us is more privatization, more dismantling and transfer of public resources, of our money, to those who make a business out of disease," he emphasized.

Speaking at the social concertation meeting last Thursday, he accused the Government of debiting "the text that the big bosses wrote for it" and said that the words that dominated the solutions presented by the Executive were three: "flexibility, which for us has a concept, but for them it means more precariousness, modernization, which in the Government's words means "more hours" and the third "reforms are necessary."

Thus, he concluded, “faced with this difficult reality, they want more precariousness, more hours, they want to get their hands on Social Security money, which, let's not forget, is labor money.”

Regarding extraordinary support for retirees, Paulo Raimundo said that " anything that comes is welcome ," but what guarantees a dignified life for those who have worked their entire lives "is not one-off support every election." What's needed, he argued, "is an extraordinary increase in all pensions and benefits."