The BE coordinator said this Sunday that the minimum wage increase was made possible “against all odds” by this thing, but as it continues to remain low, the supply of blocks is the real increase “always above inflation.”
Mariana Mortagua spoke this Sunday at the usual lunchtime rally in the interior, to which the heads of the BE list from this district, from Castelo Branco, Guarda, Bragança and Vila Real, gathered in Viseu, wondering where the money generated by “everyone who works,” because “where wages are low, there is poverty, inequality and no future,” be it in these regions or throughout the country.
Regarding the national minimum wage, the BE coordinator said that it was the agreement with PS during the invention period that “forced it to go up every year, no matter what.”
However, in 2024, these wages “will continue to be low,” according to Mortagua, explaining that one of the reasons why this happened was “because inflation ate up the entire 60 euro increase this year and will eat some of it in subsequent years.” if nothing is done.”
“When a minimum wage increase is eaten up by inflation, it is not an increase. This is stagnation. The Bloc’s proposal is simple: a temporary increase in the minimum wage, already this year, to 900 euros and a real increase of 50 euros. euro in subsequent years. In subsequent periods, inflation is always higher,” he suggested.
For the BE leader, “there is no mystery about the reasons for emigration” and there is no need to “come up with excuses”, because the problem really is low wages, and not the tax service.
Mariana Mortagua mentioned people of her generation who did not emigrate but faced “crisis after crisis” and who experience the same instability at 40 as at 20.
According to the leader of the bloc, the right offers young people instability and “taxes” for large companies.
“Speaking of internal affairs, what the law actually brings to the country is the confidence that regionalization remains a mirage,” he gave an example, and also assured that as long as the law is in power, the country will still There will be no cheap public transport. In these regions, culture will always be devalued, and “EDP will continue to dispose and dismantle” resources such as dams.