BE defends provision of PSP and GNR subsidies as only way to reassure sector

On Tuesday, the BE coordinator said that assigning risk subsidies to PSP and GNR was “the only way to calm the sector” and refused to jeopardise public accounts.

“Providing this subsidy on equal terms, which was a proposal that BE had already made to the Assembly of the Republic, which it had already voted for and which it had already approved in the form of a draft resolution in this legislature, is the only way to reassure this sector, which has just demands. So I think what is required of the government at this moment and what is required of the Prime Minister is to solve the problem,” he said.

Mariana Mortagua responded to the Prime Minister’s statements in statements to journalists at the Assembly of the Republic. Luis Montenegro said the government would not invest “another cent” in the security forces proposal, saying it had already made “terrible efforts” and could not “bring back financial instability.”

The BE leader said that before entering government, the SDP criticised “this unfair process of the previous government in providing subsidies to the judicial police, which was not replicated in other security forces”, and noted that “there is a widespread belief that this subsidy should be distributed equally, on the basis of fairness and equality, to all security forces”.

“The answer to this apparent impasse is simple, and was pointed out, if you look closely, by the prime minister himself when he was not yet prime minister,” he said, noting that “this is exactly the same requirement that existed before the previous prime minister-minister, who faced exactly the same problem.”

According to Mariana Mortagua, “the only possible answer is to create equality and therefore attribute to the remaining security forces, in this case the PSP and the GNR, the risk subsidy that was attributed to the judicial police.”

The BE coordinator expressed hope that this is the government’s path, “rather than further fuelling the debate with arguments that don’t make much sense.”

“At the moment, the missing difference between the government’s offer and the subsidy requested by the security forces is 100 euros,” he said. I maintain that appropriating this subsidy “does not put” public accounts at risk. .

Mariana Mortagua stressed that “the most important principle at this moment is the principle of justice, equality between the various security forces and the pacification of such an important sector that has lost purchasing power, lost wages, operates in conditions of great instability and deserves, like all public servants, recognition for the work they do.”

The BE coordinator also said that “the unions will know what form of protest and struggle they intend to carry out and it is important that they do so and that they can assert their rights and assert their choice, their possibilities.”