The PKP secretary-general on Wednesday said what was needed was not “fiscal shocks” but rather “wage shocks”, warning of an “injustice” between the country’s poverty and the profits of major economic groups.
“We need a significant increase in wages and pensions. There is no point in delaying or with lofty proposals and considerations, no, attacking this issue. We don’t need fiscal shocks, we need wage shocks, a significant increase in wages and pensions. which contribute to a better redistribution of the wealth created,” defended Paulo Raimundo.
The communist leader spoke to reporters at the end of a meeting with the Movement for the Abolition of the Cut at the PCP headquarters in Lisbon, lamenting that “more than two million people are below the poverty line, 10% of whom are workers.”
“While more than two million people are constrained, conditioned, and doing the math every day, we have Galp’s pattern of earnings announcements, one billion in historic, spectacular results for shareholders,” he criticized.
Paulo Raimundo pressed the party’s proposal to tax the profits of large economic groups and criticized the allocation of some $1,600 million in “state tax breaks” to these companies.
“There are never conditions for anything, we all know the “sounding nonsense”: either because there is a pandemic, or because there is a war, or because the Red Sea is clogged with boats, there are always excuses for everything, and then Gulp presents billions in profits. in 2023, and this is simply the best result in history,” he said.
The PKP Secretary General emphasized that “those who work deserve respect” and “it cannot be considered normal” that a person who works every day, “sometimes in shifts, reaches the end of the month and does not have money to pay wages.” Accounts.”
“Sorry for being so emotional in such statements. We can talk about high politics, about what will happen after March 10, about alliances, about forms, but the day we stop talking about it, we will find ourselves in a very bad place,” deliberate.
On Tuesday, the PCP supported the right of the security forces to strike, and Paulo Raimundo stressed this Wednesday that he sees “no reason” why such a right cannot be attributed to professionals who “swear and respect the Constitution.”
When Chega suggested the possibility of the party affiliation of these specialists, Paulo Raimundo replied: “We do not see the need to change what operates from this point of view.”
The communist leader gave priority to “respecting the careers” of these professionals, the merger of GNR and PSP, and the same mission addition assigned to the judicial police for all security forces.
Asked about the business barometer of Intercampus, Correio da Manhã and CMTV, published this Wednesday, in which the Democratic Alliance (AD) is superior to the PS and the left parties do not have a majority, Paulo Raimundo devalued it, saying that the polls have “a lot of conditioning and little get better.”
“No one should wait until March 10 for a poll to show the CDU rising, they will all go down. Then practice will contradict this. There is only one objective question: we had elections last September in Madeira, and the CDU doubled its numbers. Voting, we had elections in the Azores, and the CDU was 85 votes away from electing a deputy, these are facts,” he emphasized.
Regarding the percentage that the PCP would like to have, Paulo Raimundo responded in a good-natured tone: “Ideally it would be 53%.”
One leader of the Movement to End Poverty told reporters that “election campaigns are moments when many people promise something they don’t deliver and then don’t deliver,” calling for concrete measures to combat the scourge.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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