The PCP says the government still bears responsibility and criticizes Manuel Pizarro for calling off the talks.

This Thursday, the general secretary of the PKP said that despite the resignation of the prime minister, the government still bears responsibility and criticized the health minister for canceling negotiations with doctors’ unions, believing that he had revealed the “true face”.

Speaking in the public gallery in front of the Loures Medical Center, Paulo Raimundo stressed that “we are experiencing a controversial moment from a national point of view” and that the resignation of the prime minister on Tuesday is a “serious and objective problem.” but stressed that “the biggest challenges facing the country go far beyond the political crisis.”

“The biggest problem the country faces is precisely the policies that have been put in place that have led to the situation we find ourselves in this Thursday, especially here in health matters. This is the biggest problem that we need to face and solve one day. and for everyone,” he said.

According to the leader of the PKP, “although high politics are being discussed these days, the truth is that each of the difficulties” facing the National Health Service (NHS), namely “shortages of doctors, nurses, treatment, care” – persist They.

“And the truth is that we are faced with the resignation of the government, but while it exists, it has responsibilities that it must take on, and we can say that the big negative sign of these last few hours was the decision of the Minister of Health.” . cancel negotiations with doctors’ unions, he said.

Paulo Raimundo argued that by canceling these negotiations due to the “seriousness of the SNS problems,” Manuel Pizarro revealed his “true colors.”

“He was determined to mess around, mess around, mess around and try to solve nothing, and he had an excuse to keep messing around and not solving anything,” he defended.

The leader of the PKP once again confirmed that “there is money and conditions” for investing in the SNA, and considered that the current government chose the “wrong option” of “dismantling the SNA”, transferring “the lion’s share of the provision to fight diseases.” services and cash.”

Stressing that we are “on the threshold of early elections”, Paulo Raimundo said that it is necessary to “save SNS from the business of disease”, and believed that “there is only one possibility” to achieve this: “strengthening, from the electoral point of view, the PKP and the CDU” .

“The evidence is there: when the PKP and the CDU move forward, everyone’s life improves. When the PKP and the CDU are promoted, the social network works better,” he said.

Returning to the state budget for 2022, which the PKP voted against and which caused the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic and the subsequent announcement of elections, the leader of the PKP said that now is the time to remember this: In this case, the PS rejected proposals that “strengthened the SNA.”

“We are confident that if the proposals we put forward were implemented, (…) we would not have lost two years in terms of the measures that needed to be taken. The responsibility for the situation that we received was a lie solely with the PS,” he defended himself.

Paulo Raimundo called “not to let down our guard,” emphasizing that the moment when we are “on the threshold of elections is not a moment to wait, but to demand by force, to condition those who are there, and to condition in a decisive way.” those who will be there.”

“Now is not the time to wait for anything, because the life of every person does not wait for anything, the disease that everyone has does not wait in two months. (…) Moreover, this is the time to continue to demand and be demanding,” he said.

On Wednesday, a union source told Lusa that a meeting scheduled for that day between the Ministry of Health and medical unions had been cancelled.