Rui Rocha criticizes the “ideological blindness” of the PCP, while Paulo Raimundo accuses the IL of only wanting the state to “write cheques.”

Rui Rocha criticized the end of public-private partnerships in the health sector during a debate with PCP Secretary General Paulo Raimundo, broadcast this Wednesday by the TV channel RTP. In this regard, the IL President criticized communist “ideological blindness”. “Users have gotten worse. Doctors have gotten worse. (…) Waiting lists have increased,” he noted. IL advocates “immediately picking up public-private partnerships where they left off and exploring terms for others.” On the contrary, for Paulo Raimundo, “the problem with SNS is the lack of professionals.”

Regarding salaries in public administration, Rui Rocha stated that “part of the remuneration of civil servants should be objective, based on performance.” PCP competitions. “Our vision is based on salary increases and career assessment. There is no connection between productivity and wages,” emphasized Paulo Raimundo.

In “strategic sectors such as energy, banking and telecommunications,” the PKP promises to “stop privatization” and opens the door to nationalization, a strategy that Rui Rocha interprets as the path to “the collapse of small and medium-sized companies and various sectors of the economy.” According to the Liberals, “there should be private gains and private losses” and not “an injection of taxpayer money like in TAP or EFACEC.” Paulo Raimundo countered: “IL believes that the state is superior to everything except writing checks.”