This Monday, the BE coordinator accused the far right of telling immigrants not to look at those who abuse this economic model, criticizing those who want to close the borders, forcing these workers to enter “through the window of secret immigration.”
Mariana Mortagua spoke this evening at a dinner rally in Évora, a speech in which she spoke about the problems in Alentejo and the solutions that BE proposes in these elections, but in which she was very critical of the anti-immigration speech given in Portugal.
“How can Portugal’s suffering be blamed on those who create the country’s wealth through their work, those who contribute 1,600 million euros annually to the social security system,” he asked. .
According to the bloc’s leader, “the far right points the finger at the most vulnerable” with the clear aim of not looking up “to those who profit, to those who benefit, to those who abuse, to those who exploit.” .
“That’s why they target the most vulnerable, the poorest, and I ask you: who will benefit from the work of illegal immigrants that depends on the mafia,” he asked.
“They want to close the door of legal immigration so they can come in through the window of illegal immigration because there they have no rights, they cannot claim a wage, they have no opportunity to earn a living,” he denounced.
The BE leader’s position is that “when the economy demands and the law deprives people of their rights, abuses always increase”, lamenting that despite the authorities destroying “some of these mafias”, the abuses do not disappear.
“A new pattern will always emerge. And it appears for a simple reason: the mafia feeds on the economic model in Portugal, and the economic model feeds the mafia in Portugal,” he criticized.
According to Mortagua, who regrets that “the millions of people included in the agricultural production records do not remain in the Alentejo”, he is “quickly abandoning, in the pockets of transnational corporations, in the pockets of international financial funds”, “the elite that so attacks Portugal ” in many different ways,” imposing a low-wage economic model and putting “maximum pressure on public services” without paying “fair taxes to finance those public services.”