The parliamentary leader of the PSD this Wednesday called on the Prime Minister or the Secretary General of the PS to explain to the country what he called an “unforgivable mistake” towards the security forces.
In a political statement to the Standing Committee of the Assembly of the Republic, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento touched on a topic also raised earlier by the PS and then by Chega, noting that “the government is the first and most responsible for this discontent in the security forces.” “.
“On the one hand, PS allowed the degradation of the material conditions, remuneration and authority of these specialists. On the other hand, she inexplicably created an inequity by attributing the mission addition to PJ rather than PSP. and GNR,” he said.
According to Miranda Sarmento, the government has “not justified or explained” these inequalities and believes current Prime Minister António Costa will have to do so anyway.
“If António Costa does not clarify the situation, this measure will have to be explained by the secretary general of the Socialist Party,” he said.
According to Miranda Sarmento, this will be a decision “that not even the Council of Ministers has made.”
However, on November 29, a statement from this government meeting stated that “a decree-law was approved defining a special regime for the provision of work in the judicial police, resulting from the special regime for the provision of work for special professions and existing professions of the judicial police.” The police and the burdens associated with carrying out their mission, in particular the risk, unhealthy conditions and difficulties associated with them.”
On the same day, a statement from the Ministry of Justice detailed that the mission allowance approved for judicial police officers could, in some cases, represent an increase of almost 700 euros per month.
However, the SDP parliamentary leader stressed that if the grievance is legitimate, it “does not give agents the right to break the law and create indiscipline and a sense of insecurity.”
“There cannot be extremist and populist political forces involved in this discontent, promoting chaos and demagoguery. The safety of citizens is too important to play with fire,” he said in a warning that had also already been left by the socialist bench.
In Chegi’s political declaration, parliamentary leader Pedro Pinto placed full responsibility for the police protests on the government’s side and accused Interior Minister José Luis Carneiro and the prime minister of throwing “logs on the fire.”
“No, minister, these are not extremist movements. This government wanted to pit the police against the police,” he criticized, regretting that the executive only spoke publicly about the issue when the police failed at a football match.
The new secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, Pedro Nuno Santos, became another target of criticism in political statements by the PSD and IL, which criticized the issue he left in the televised debate he held on Monday with Rui Rocha.
“Two days ago, the PS Secretary General said with some arrogance about the state of public services: “What is not working?” This can only be a consequence of a complete disconnect from reality,” accused the leader of the parliament in the PSD.
Miranda Sarmento believes that in the areas of health, education, transport, justice, defense, “it has not worked for a long time” and that public services in general “are collapsing, despite the fact that the Portuguese are paying more and more taxes.”
“If there is one thing that works, it is the socialist government’s courage to tax families and companies,” he criticized.
In the same spirit, IL MP Joana Cordeiro said that Pedro Nuno Santos’ question “should be the opposite”.
“After all, what did the PS contribute to the work? Nothing. And in the areas that Pedro Nuno Santos oversaw, it was a complete failure,” he said, referring to files such as TAP, the new airport or housing.
This was the last meeting of the Standing Committee of the Assembly of the Republic before the early legislative elections on March 10.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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