The PCP’s general secretary announced on Tuesday that the Communist candidate for the next presidential elections will have to “include his political program in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.”
At the end of a tour with journalists at the Festa do Avante site in Seixal, Paulo Raimundo said the party was looking for a “regular profile” for the next presidential elections, despite the fact that no name had been chosen.
“The profile we have is a normal profile, the profile of a man who has one thing – excuse me for symbolizing it this way – a small book called the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, a political program that must be implemented and respected,” he said.
Paulo Raimundo said that this is now “proof” that the Constitution is not being respected, since it provides access to health care for everyone, and that “half of the state budget for social services should not be taken away and given to the sector of those who make business out of illness, the private sector.”
“We know all the problems of the SNS, access to the SNS for everyone, but especially for pregnant women. We are here in Margem-Sul, next Saturday there will be no emergency room open on the Setubal Peninsula,” said the leader of the PCP.
Paulo Raimundo has not ruled himself out of the race for Belém, saying he sees himself playing “all the roles necessary to help people and workers,” but noting that it is not a priority discussion for the PCP at the moment.
“I know it’s summer, it’s all news, everything takes on the dimensions of summer news. Some good, some bad. But I think anyone who wants to push the presidential debate now, come on, here for us, the fact that no one is listening to us is kind of a push forward. The problem we have today is not the presidential election,” he said.
For the PCP secretary general, the biggest problems at present are related to “low salaries, low reforms and the drama of access to housing”, and not the upcoming presidential elections.
The Portuguese, he said, “are far from the presidential elections, and the people’s problems are not deeply connected to this pressure and this blackmail that already exists and will be aggravated by the so-called political instability.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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