Fernando Veludo / Lusa
The President of arrives, André Ventura
President of the arrival: “Public services, such as transportation, cannot stop discretionarily and people run out of transport.”
The leader of He arrives expressed available for a “Extended consensus” with PSD, IL and CDs to change the strike lawarguing that it is necessary to balance the right to strike with the guarantee of operation of public services.
“We would like, before moving the law [da greve]create a consent As wide as possible about the topics and the points where it is necessary to move the law, ”André Ventura said in statements to journalists upon Quinta Monte Redondo, in Sintra, to participate in a presentation session of municipal candidates.
The arrival leader said he considered that there are a set of measures that are consensual among right -wing parties on the strike law, namely that “Public services, such as transportation, cannot stop discretionarily and people run out of transport.”
Another of the materials that he considered to be consensual is that who has passes, Whether from Carris or CP, “it cannot simply be without service” and must be reimbursed by the interruption of the service in case of strike.
André Ventura stressed that “there is no doubt” that “Workers are entitled to strike”but pointed out that “the citizen also has the right that public services work”, Namely the transportation or hospitals.
“It is this conflict of interest that you need to resolve and that it has to consensualize something and not do what the government often does, which is to put the law out here, in any way, unilateral, and then you soon see how it runs. No, This has to be negotiatedworked and we are available and open to do so, ”he said, noting that he has not yet had any contact with the PSD or the government on this matter.
Asked with who intends to reach this wide consensus, André Ventura replied: “Especially mostly on the right, with IL, with the PSD, with the CDS.”
“I think it is possible, because we have a majority in Parliament, to leave for this combat without letting the left make this fight and an ideological battle of Preci anti-prec or anti-slaves blackheads,” he said.
