Paulo Raimundo considers the demands of the protesting police officers fair

PCP leader Paulo Raimundo on Tuesday sided with security forces in protest against improved working conditions and wages, believing their demands and concerns were justified.

“These are fair demands and concerns, problems for which we proposed a set of solutions, but, unfortunately, others did not follow,” he said.

Paulo Raimundo spoke to journalists at the end of the meeting to present the list of CDU candidates from the Évora circle for the next legislative elections, which will take place in the Palacio D. Manuel in the city of Alentejo.

Considering that the police problems are “already old”, the Communist General Secretary said this was now the “last straw” as the government has excluded elements of PSP, GNR and others from the supplement allocated to the Judicial Police (PJ). .

“Increasing support for members of the joint venture is beyond doubt. This is fair and it should be, but I could not leave these professionals aside,” because although “they have different missions, the risk they run is the same for everyone,” he argued.

The PS government, concluded Paulo Raimundo, “has all the conditions, even in the situation in which it [em gestão]to solve this problem”.

At the presentation of the candidates for Évora, whose list is headed by the current deputy Alma Rivera, the leader of the PKP called for voting for the CDU and criticized the PS for the “rain of promises” at the last socialist congress.

“Does anyone feel that the daily and serious problems they face in terms of doctor shortages, access to healthcare, housing, low wages, unregulated working hours, short pensions, rising costs of living, injustice and inequality have had an impact? the answer to this rain of promises?” he asked.

As for the right-wing parties, Paulo Raimundo put them all in one “bag”, emphasizing that those who remain in the PSD and CDU, as well as in Chege and the Liberal Initiative, support the policies of “governments with a bad memory of right-wing parties.” People”.

“Yes, everyone was in the government of the troika, in the government of aggression against the people and the country, within or supporting it, SDP, SDS, Chega and IL in cutting pensions, cutting salaries, stealing vacation and holiday pay,” he emphasized.

In a 20-minute speech, the communist leader expressed the view that PS Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos’ proposal to reach a minimum wage of one thousand euros in 2028 “is not a vision of the future” but rather “a call for wage restraint.”

“What workers need is a thousand euros of minimum wage now, this year, in 2024, because right now workers are having difficulty getting paid before the end of the month,” he added.