The leader of the PKP this Saturday accused the government of approving a package of anti-corruption measures that in practice legalizes influence peddling, and insisted on an immediate increase in all salaries.
“But is it possible to wage a merciless fight against corruption without encountering offshore tax havens, these real holiday homes for those who do business, influence trade and money coming from corruption?” Paulo Raimundo asked at the rally. . in the municipality of Anadia, Aveiro district.
The communist leader, speaking at a regional meeting in Aveiro, in the Merendas de Mogofores park, wondered whether it was possible to fight corruption “without having to deal with negotiations and privatization, as was the case with the ANA-Aeroportos de Portugal privatization scandal.” “.
In front of several dozen supporters, the leader of the PKP emphasized that the measures of the government anti-corruption package are nothing more than 32 intentions, which in practice “leave everything for later and do not bring anything new.”
According to Paulo Raimundo, “what will not be left for later is the legalization of what is illegal today – influence peddling under that pompous name called lobbying.”
“A lot of talk, a lot of chest-thumping, a lot of sand in the eyes and, in the end, what was illegal becomes legal, little fight against corruption and a truce. always with those who, in their opinion, are the masters of all this and for whom there is never a single measure that could resist them,” he emphasized.
Even in the area of fighting corruption, the Communist Secretary General called on the country to stop turning to arbitration courts, “in which the state always loses.”
“If there is any arbitration award in which the state has won, someone must present that first piece of evidence,” said Paulo Raimundo, accusing the main parties of banding together to make ending the state’s appeal to the arbitration courts impossible. .
The government approved on Thursday at the Council of Ministers a package of more than 30 anti-corruption measures, including regulation of “lobbying” and the confiscation of assets derived from illegal activities, even without conviction.
Accusing boss Luis Montenegro of manipulating economic groups, he insisted on an immediate increase of all wages by 150 euros and a minimum of 15% for all workers, as well as setting the national minimum wage this year at 1,000 euros.
According to Paulo Raimundo, it is “necessary and fair” to significantly increase all wages, which will enable workers to cope with the costs of living “which never stop rising in terms of housing, food, energy and medicine.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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