Telmo Correia wants to increase salaries for security forces

Interior Minister Telmo Correia today defended a “significant improvement” in security force salaries and “regulated immigration,” believing that if not for the CDS-PP, “the Prime Minister would be called Pedro Nuno Santos.

“We are talking about better equipment, better protection, better working conditions, but let’s not hide it, let’s be clear and say: we are also talking about ensuring that those who are responsible for our security, whether in the security forces or in the Armed Forces The forces have significantly improved their wage conditions, so we will fight,” defended Telmo Correia.

The CDS-PP vice-president and governor was speaking before the 31st party congress, which takes place today and Sunday in Viseu, also arguing that “crimes and attacks on security forces should and should be punished more seriously and more seriously.” “

Telmo Correia added that the CDS-PP does not oppose the objective need of businessmen for foreign labor, but defends “regulated and demanding immigration” under the motto “strictness in entry, humanity in integration.”

In his speech, which lasted about fifteen minutes, the former deputy emphasized the current weight of the party in the PSD/CDZ minority government led by Luis Montenegro.

“The weight of the CDS is as simple as the fact that we know that if it were not for the CDS, the Prime Minister instead of Luis Montenegro would have been called, to our sins, Pedro Nuno Santos. [secretário-geral do PS]”, he thought.

The centrist asked not to forget that the party’s main opponents are “the left, PS, PKP and the extreme left.”

Telmo Correia, before the main meeting, stressed that the CDS is the party of “institutionalism”, “memory and recognition”, recalling one of the founders of the party, Professor Adriano Moreira.

“On the 50th anniversary of the CDS, in the midst of its 100th anniversary, Professor Adriano Moreira asked us in a video: “Never give up, don’t give up, don’t stop fighting.” And we, gathered here, can say: Mister “Professor, we are not giving up, we are here, we honor your legacy, the party is here, it is alive and able to continue the fight,” he exclaimed.

Also in his speech to the 31st Congress, former parliamentary leader Nuno Magalhães said that he has “not the slightest doubt” that the SDS-PP will know how to “maintain a good brand of coalitions and a form of participation, knowing that loyalty is not subordination”. , cohesion in a coalition is not absorption, solidarity is not submission.”

“I know very well how to have common sense in managing expectations, integrity in managing differences and compassion in managing crises,” he said.

Noting that the CDS-PP is distinguished by “its competence, quality and loyalty,” Nuno Magalhães asked the centrists to maintain “authenticity, competence, a way of being different and being better in government and the Assembly of the Republic.”

The former deputy said that the SRS-PP oversees “naturally complex” areas in the government.

The former Minister of Internal Administration believed that Portugal “has a problem with authority” and argued that “it is necessary to restore the authority of the security forces and services, of course through remuneration issues, through more and better means, but also through legal measures ” changes which may enhance its prestige and improve its mission.”

“And to say something very clearly, we have no doubt about who to support in the event of a police incident: the security forces,” he said.

On immigration, Nuno Magalhães called for “strictness in entry and humanity in integration” and noted that “the worst way to help people looking for Portugal is to leave the doors wide open, promise everything to everyone at the same time and worry.” about them one day.”

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