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The Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), Paulo Raimundo
The PCP will present a rejection motion of the government program, considering that it is not necessary to wait for the document to know that it will contain “attacks on public services and workers’ rights.”
“We cannot be waiting and we have to do everything in our power to wage the dismantling of the NHS, the social security assault, the work changes, the process of privatization that is underway. And the first initiative to lock this is the presentation of a rejection motion to the government program,” the PCP secretary general, announced on Tuesday, on Tuesday, said Tuesday, on Tuesday, said, the general secretary of the PCP, Paulo Raimundo.
At a press conference at the PCP’s national headquarters in Lisbon, after a meeting of the Party Central Committee, this Tuesday, Raimundo anticipated any criticism about the presentation of a rejection motion of a government program that is not yet known, Paulo Raimundo said that “Everyone knows what the agenda is, what is perspective”.
“It’s a triple”
Questioned because the PCP decided to move forward with a motion of rejection that, at the outset, should be spoiled, Paulo Raimundo considered that “it will have great political significance, of condemnation to the policy that the government wants to present.”
“And it will have another very important meaning: is that we will give fight to the government and its policy, the project and the Right reactionary agenda On all fronts, on the institutional front and on all fronts of struggle, ”he reiterated.
“[A moção de rejeição] It’s a triple: It is worth the act itself, the condemnation, and for what opens of hope. We also have no great illusions either, but there is nothing to leave at the outset a motion that is still unknown, ”he said.
Gentle Marcelo
The President of the Republic said, on Tuesday, not seeing a problem in the rejection of the government program announced by the PCP.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa took on these positions in statements to CNN Portugal, at the National Palace of Ajuda, in Lisbon.
Interrogated if the PCP rejection motion can make the process going on, the head of state replied: “No, the PCP will be received the day after [sexta-feira] And I think even clarified“.
“The PCP has always maintained positions of this content. Can keep them Because there is a parliamentary group – only parliamentary groups can present motions of rejection. Therefore, it was not a surprise nor is it a problem that affects both the meetings with the PCP and the other parties that are missing, ”he added.
Meetings are to repeat
After having spoken briefly to journalists today in the late afternoon, signaling that he did not want to talk about hearings to the parties about the formation of the next government, the head of state stretched more in these statements to CNN, reiterating that those meetings “went well”, but they are to repeat.
Second Marcelo, There was “a common point, which is to seek stability”.
THE MEETING WITH Luís Montenegro allowed to “understand the sensitivity the Prime Minister and the Party ”, while the meeting with the Last Secretary-General of the PS Pedro Nuno Santos was “symbolic”.
“It was very short, because [Pedro Nuno Santos] went to present compliments, to say goodbye. We ended up talking about the recent past, and I had already marked, but another meeting with the PS and also with the PSD was confirmed next week, when the provisional results with emigrants are known, which will be the 28th, ”he added.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that the meeting with André Ventura also “it was relatively short because It will also be received on the 28th“.
The President of the Republic hopes that next week there will be “possible data for the process to follow the planned pace, which is a pace that actually allows, until June 10, being possible, there is government”, estimating that, if so, the debate of the government program “can follow the holidays of June.”
Questioned about who to understand themselves will be a Government from ad ad (PSD/CDS-PP), Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa retaliated: “It is early to be pronouncing myself. I will not tell the particular conversations of it, though political but private in nature. ”
“I will not tell you, but the idea that the fundamental guarantee is that the government is able to start, and then the very logic of things shows and will show that everyone is interested in having no crises that institute the Portuguese situation,” he said.
