Katarina Martins asks where the ‘chest pierced’ prime minister is to confront the ECB

The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda criticized this Saturday the “brawl of the palaces” between São Bento and Belém and asked where the “big breasted prime minister” is when the European Central Bank (ECB) increases contributions to the Portuguese houses.

“Christine Lagarde [presidente do BCE] says it’s interesting [taxas diretoras com impacto no crédito à habitação]who will continue to raise interest rates and which he knows will hurt workers in Europe, and he knows that Portugal will be hit particularly hard. Where is the prime minister with big breasts at this moment, who talks about stability and loves to show his strength?”, said Katarina Martins, speaking at a dinner with militants from the Esquerda Block in Coimbra.

Referring to the disagreement between the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic over the maintenance of the Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba, Catarina Martins believes that “in this battle for the palaces between São Bento and Belém, neither São Bento nor Belém said a word. about raising interest rates and increasing housing premiums.

“Where is the prime minister’s chest, made to protect the Portuguese people and tell the ECB that he can’t keep raising interest rates like this? Or large economic groups that cannot continue to eat our economy at a profit? this prime minister whom I have heard commentators say has shown that he has power? Where is the strength needed to protect those who live off their work?” Katarina Martins stressed, also accusing Marcelo Rebela de Souza of keeping quiet about the ECB’s interest rate policy.

Katarina Martins also confessed her disbelief when she heard “the minister gave a press conference to detail the disrespect that was in his ministry”. [referindo-se ao ministro João Galamba e denúncias de um conflito físico envolvendo o seu ex-adjunto Frederico Pinheiro]”.

“And then, if not, when the Prime Minister arrives – and I consider this historic – at the door of the official residence, with a serious look, tell about the incident and the bicycle that flew through the window. I confess that I know that there are many problems, but I I didn’t know that at that moment our attention was demanded by disrespect in the ministry, which is a matter for the police, and not a matter for communication with the country,” commented Katarina Martins.

For the coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda in recent days, “everything has been talked about except what matters.”

“If all this is funny, then it is also serious. This is serious, because if we leave the palaces and get closer to the people’s homes where they live, we will find that the struggle between the palaces is very little fun and says little to those who cannot pay the mortgage, to those who cannot rent housing, those who do not know how to survive until the end of the month,” he stressed.

At the end of her speech, which lasted a little over ten minutes, Katarina Martins emphasized that “there is no struggle between the palaces”, which caused the fundamental party to forget that “the people deserve much more respect than they had”.