This Sunday, BE’s coordinator considered the political crisis to be the result of a “regime of licentiousness, ease and privilege” and blamed the “bad policies of the absolute majority” for being the main cause of the “deep social crisis.”
“This political crisis is the result of a regime of debauchery, ease and privilege that has permeated the Portuguese economy over the past few decades, which manipulates and conditions national investment and which illegitimately uses the stamp of national interests to legitimize itself,” Mariana said. Mortagua.
The leader of the Bloc spoke this Sunday in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, at the closing of the VIII Regional Congress of the BE/Azores.
Mortagua criticized “the service economy and the revolving doors that discredit the state” and “set the country back”, recalling “megalomaniacal real estate projects from Vale do Lobo to Comporta”, “the business with Portugal Telecom” and “ renewable energy sources.” paid the price of gold.”
“Everything is done in the name of national interest for the benefit of a handful of companies and economic groups around whom the usual intermediaries swarm: those who liaise with politics and banking, those who protect contracts, write laws and guarantee confidentiality,” he criticized.
Regarding the investigation that led to the resignation of the prime minister, the Bloc coordinator confirmed that the suspicions “require clarification from the prosecutor’s office.”
“We reject the fact that politics and business are two sides of the same coin. This is the usual central regime that confuses politics and business,” he said.
In his opinion, the main reason for the “deep social crisis” that the country is experiencing is the “bad policies of the absolute majority,” which results in “thousands of students without teachers,” “broken hospitals,” and a “housing crisis.” catastrophe”.
“The crisis that the vast majority of PSs face is the lack of solutions for the country. These are young people who know that with their salary they will never be able to have a house in the city where they work,” he continued.
And he added: “The crisis of the absolute majority is people who look at themselves and do not see the future.”
Speaking about the Azores, Mortagua criticized the “negotiations” around EDA (the Azores electricity company) and the Bensaúde group for the purchase of fuel oil, as well as the company of the undersecretary of the administration of the regional government (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM), which “began to live off contracts with government for a total of half a million euros.”
“In the Azores, as in the country, the right is not united by the fight against corruption. The right is united by its hunger to play the same rigged game of attacking the poorest,” he said.
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