Prime Minister António Costa dismissed Sunday’s protests as “part of freedom and democracy” after confronting many teachers who took advantage of June 10 to demonstrate in Régua.
“The protest of teachers is part of freedom and democracy, only it is strange for journalists that there are protests. This is part of democracy,” said António Costa, trying to maintain a dialogue with the teacher after the military ceremony Portugal, Camões and Portuguese communities.
Peso da Régua in the Vila Real area was chosen by the President of the Republic for the June 10th celebration and by the many teachers who demonstrated there.
After completing the military ceremony, António Costa walked along the route from Avenida do Douro to the place chosen for lunch, always accompanied by many teachers who shouted “respect” among other things. The same message was written on the posters, some of which also read “resignation” and showed an image of the prime minister with two pencils in his eyes and a pig nose.
Upon arriving at the restaurant, Prime Minister Fernanda Tadeu’s wife was flustered by some teachers’ comments in protest. At first, António Costa asked the woman not to respond to the comments, but then he turned and shouted “racist”, obviously flustered.
Booted by teachers, the prime minister, however, cherished many popular people who told him “Welcome to the Douro”, “We are here to support you” and “Regua with you”.
“I feel very good in the Douro and throughout the country,” he noted, again insisting that the background noise that accompanied him “is the right to demonstrate.”
“Best taste, worst taste, these slightly racist posters, but that’s all, that’s life,” he stressed. In a conversation with a teacher, António Costa said that the teachers are “very unfair”.
“They are very unfair, and they are unfair because they are protesting against a government that has put an end to the career freeze,” he said after being interrupted by a teacher to whom he said, “May I speak? I also want respect.”
And he insisted, citing “the first time his career has been unfrozen since 2018, a career that has never had so many consecutive years of unfreeze.”
“So we unfreeze, we keep the career unfrozen and ensure that the career will continue unfrozen. The time recovery produced was exactly the same as for the remaining quarries, meaning 70% of the frozen time,” he said. .
Secondly, he added, considering that “the thaw did not have the same effect on people depending on the position they occupied in their careers”, and therefore, as he explained, “an accelerator was created”, where the quota .
In this dialogue, António Costa was constantly interrupted and asked to speak, trying to point out the various measures taken by the government regarding the class.
Even earlier, with another teacher from Povoa de Lagnoso, the head of government spoke for more than 12 minutes, listening to their complaints and referring to the fact that it was the government that “opened the dialogue” and that the interlocutors were trade unions.
António Costa even had the teacher’s phone number so they could agree on “pedagogical issues” that also apply to teachers.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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