The Left Bloc wants to enter in 2025 “to win” in various domains, namely, “to win the right to have a house”. For Mortágua, this path passes through a “very simple, sensible and possible choice” to impose ceilings on rents, “to stop the millionaire and speculative price of housing in Portugal”.
The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda, Mariana Mortágua, guaranteed this Monday that her party will always be “a combative opposition” to the “bad politics of the right”, stating that in 2025 she wants to “join forces” to defeat it. In a New Year’s video message, the blockade coordinator considered that 2024 “was a difficult year” for those who “defend democracy”.
“The right did everything to impose its program against work, to privatize healthcare, it governed for a small elite of the richest. Meanwhile, it echoes the perceptions of the extreme right to fuel its campaign, at the expense of who is more fragile”, he criticized.
In this context – and on the eve of a year of local elections, in which the blocists They have already shown openness to a pre-electoral coalition in Lisbon on the left several timesto defeat the right-wing municipal executive of Carlos Moedas – Mariana Mortágua left an appeal.
“We were, we will always be, a combative opposition to this bad right-wing policy. In 2024, we gave them a fight. In 2025, we joined forces to defeat it. We will be a community against selfishness, empathy against cynicism and that is where we We always find, in defense of a good life for everyone. 2025, we do it together”, defended the blocker.
BE wants to enter in 2025 “to win” in various domains, namely, “to win the right to have a house”.
“This is the year to rescue the houses that we lost to tourism. We want to return to having families where today only local accommodation lives. We want to fill the houses that speculative funds have emptied”, he argued.
For Mortágua, this path passes through a “very simple, sensible and possible choice” to impose ceilings on rents, “to stop the millionaire and speculative price of housing in Portugal”.
Next year, according to the BE coordinator, is also “the year to reinvent the National Health Service”.
“The PS let the hospitals degrade, let the professionals leave. The PSD thanked them for their work and now wants to definitively hand over what’s left of healthcare to the business. It’s the old liberal dream in which the SUS stops being for everyone and access health care becomes only for those who can pay for it. But it is not written that it has to be that way”, he highlighted.
Give more rights to shift workers and introduce the four-week working week in the country days are another of the objectives that Mortágua sets for next year at the national level.
At an international level, the blocker does not forget one of the party’s main flags: the end of the wars, in particular, the conflict in the Gaza Strip, remembering when they pressured the Government to remove the Portuguese flag from a ship that, in September, transported explosives for weapons production in Israel.
“In 2025 we have to maintain all this vigilance, but we have to do much more than that. It is the year to join voices, to multiply actions, to take to the streets as many times as necessary, to say that we will not be accomplices in the killing and that the money from schools, money from hospitals cannot go towards missiles or bombs”, he stressed.
