The PCP submitted 188 bills and 114 resolutions to this legislature.

The PKP submitted 183 bills and 144 resolutions to this legislature, the party announced this Monday and accuses the PS of using its absolute majority to free itself “from any commitment to the revenue restoration policy.”

“The XV Legislature is marked by the confirmation that the early elections and the absolute majority (…) objectively served to release the PS from any obligations regarding the policies of income restoration and labor assessment, reforms and pensions,” he criticizes the PKP. in that legislature’s balance sheet, which began in March 2022 and now ends with a call for early legislative elections.

The party accuses the government of “immediately taking advantage” of inflationary pressures “to stop the rise of real wages, while at the same time refusing to intervene to control and reduce prices and profit margins.”

Adding to this situation, PCP states that the European Central Bank (ECB) “under the guise of inflation, has developed a policy of exponentially increasing interest rates, which has had dramatic consequences for the lives of families and small businesses, flowing directly into the economy.” financial capital millions and millions of euros.”

“The legacy of the PS’s absolute majority, which lasted no more than half the legislature, and contrary to what propaganda would have us believe, is great hardship for those who work or live on their pensions,” they criticize.

For the communists, “it was obvious that an absolute majority for the PS was not a guarantee of stability or the advancement of the rights of workers and the people, but rather a guarantee of instability and great difficulties in the life of the Portuguese people.”

“Faced with a situation of deteriorating economic and social situation, the PCP parliamentary group launched intensive work on the institutional expression of the political alternative that the PCP project entails, not only in terms of significant options, but also in response to pressing problems that have worsened,” they state They.

According to the party, the result of this work was 299 initiatives, divided into 183 bills, 114 resolutions, a draft constitutional revision and another revision of the Rules of the Assembly of the Republic.

The communists also claim that they submitted 716 questions and requests addressed to the government, held 390 parliamentary hearings and five public hearings on the CTT, agriculture and national sovereignty, national defence, support for the arts and the state of science in Portugal.

The PCP, which has a parliamentary group of six deputies, also emphasizes that it organized three parliamentary days in this legislature – on the Setúbal Peninsula, in Beja and in Serra da Estrela – and “several visits and meetings in constituencies on the continent and in the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira.”