The left is “making life difficult” for the Government

The division between a more extreme left and a more moderate left. Pedro Duarte analyzes labor law.

The Government is having difficulty moving forward with the proposed changes to labor laws, in a process that began in July last year.

After around 60 meetings, the UGT – General Union of Workers is being the biggest obstacle, continuing to reject the proposal, even after the changes have already been made. The CGTP – General Confederation of Portuguese Workers claims to be being removed from the meetings.

Pedro Duarte is one of the politicians who consider that the left is influence unions, contributing to the prolongation of these discussions.

This is because, according to the mayor of Porto and member of the Council of State, the Government “is having to face a confrontation with the left”.

“The country is experiencing a problem which is: left this divided between a more left extreme and a further left moderate. Feel very inside yourself PS”, analyzed Pedro Duarte, in .

“For all the reasons and then some,” he continues, left is “making life difficult” for the Government and the moderate left”, by preventing a social consultation agreement.

José Pacheco Pereira thinks that those who blame the extreme left in this matter are those who “live in a world of selvajaria verbal and politics that, in fact, is institutionalized a lot by ignorance”.

For the historian, this Government proposal “there is not a single measure in favor of workerslives on a rhetoric about modernity that has never been seen anywhere and hides the fact that productivity problems in Portugal come, in part, from the poor qualification of the workforce and the lack of preparation of employers”.

Alexandra Leitão (PS) reinforced: “It’s not fair say that those who are against this labor reform are extreme people. Anyone who even follows it at all, especially workers, knows that this is not true, because what we are talking about is make precarious”.