This Thursday, the PKP insisted that the draft constitutional revisions submitted by the SDP, Chega and IL “whiten fascism and open the doors wide for action by its heirs,” so the party decided to take its own initiative.
“It is the anti-democratic nature of the PSD, IL and Chega options that justifies the presentation of proposals that deliberately whitewash fascism and open the doors wide for the actions of its heirs,” Communist leader Joao Oliveira said at a press conference. at the headquarters of the party., in Lisbon.
According to the PKP, the right wants to “subvert the Constitution” when it allows “restriction of freedoms to facilitate recourse to a state of emergency”, as well as the legalization of “investigation of information about citizens’ reports.” information services” or even “the return of a “file” of individuals and families with the collection of personal information.”
“Even if the PS uses the ‘constitutional review process’ to stir up disagreements and differences” with the right, the recognition of the process initiated by Chega “is in itself evidence of rapprochement” with the SDP, Chega and IL.
The very announcement that the PS was “coming into play” with its own project revealed a “base of understanding” between socialists and social democrats regarding “maiming and undermining the Constitution,” concluded Joao Oliveira.
The former parliamentary leader of the PKP, who left parliament at the end of the previous legislative assembly due to not being re-elected by the Évora constituency, added that the draft constitutional review that the PKP will present aims to “protect the values of April and deepen the project of the future that entails behind the Constitution.”
All other projects, the former deputy continued, are aimed at “imposing regressions and eliminating freedoms and rights.”
The PKP wants to enshrine in the Constitution a living wage for all citizens and provide for an increase “in real terms” of the national minimum wage, and also proposes a gradual reduction in working hours “without loss of rights”.
In the constitutional revision draft submitted by the PKP and presented last Friday to the Assembly of the Republic, the communists advocate “the constitutionalization of a living wage for all citizens.”
Thus, without specifying values, the PKP proposes to amend Article 63 of the Constitution on “Social security and solidarity” by introducing a new figure stating that “the law guarantees to all citizens a minimum income guaranteeing their livelihood”.
In a document that the Communists say aims to “improve and perfect the Constitution,” the PCP also proposes an update to article 59, paragraph 2, of the Basic Law that would provide for the “establishment, updating and assessment in real terms of the National Minimum Wage (SMN) ”, unlike the current article, which does not contain any mention of the SMN increase.
In the same sense, in Article 63 of the Constitution, the PCP proposes to include a new figure that would state that “pensions and reforms should be regularly updated and assessed in real terms.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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