Paulo Raimundo says it’s “increasingly difficult” for opponents to justify inequality

PCP Secretary General Paulo Raimundo said his opponents were “increasingly having difficulty justifying inequality and injustice” and promised that he would not shy away from bringing the “urgent need” of raising wages into the political debate.

“How can you justify the fact that 5% of the population holds in their hands 42% of all the wealth that is created by the work of each of us, while three million workers earn up to a thousand euros in gross income?” salary per month, and 78% of pensioners earn up to 500 euros? It is not easy to justify this injustice,” Paulo Raimundo said Wednesday evening at the end of a dinner/rally in Mangualda.

In his opinion, it is also not easy to justify the “25 million euros of profit of economic groups per day,” while the majority of Portuguese “face increasing and daily difficulties in accessing essential goods.”

“It is becoming increasingly difficult for them to hide a fair, necessary and urgent alternative,” says the PKP leader, defending “a general and significant increase in wages” as the central issue.

Therefore, “even if someone wants to run away,” he ensured that the topic would be raised in political debate.

And regarding the usual question of “will companies and the economy cope with this”, Paulo Raimundo has no doubt about the answer: “what we cannot cope with is living with the wages that exist, what we can no longer cope with “These are the scandalous profits of economic groups.”

“The problem is not the lack of wealth being created, the problem is how this wealth is distributed among workers,” he emphasized.

Paulo Raimundo addressed those “who are crying crocodile tears for micro, small and medium-sized companies,” asking them to “stop making vague statements and accompany the CDU in setting gas and electricity prices, in reducing telecommunications prices, to stop the theft of bank accounts.” costs and insurance costs and put an end to tolls once and for all.”

“This is what micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs need. They need each of us to have more money in our pockets” to be able to stimulate the economy, he said.

In his opinion, “anyone who says they will respond to the most pressing problems existing in society without confronting economic groups is either very naive or lying with all their teeth in their mouth.”

“Without this gap, without this courage and determination, we will not be able to respond to what really needs to be responded to,” he warned.