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Hundreds of public administration workers protest in Lisbon.

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Hundreds of people involved in a protest organized by the Common Front of Public Administration Unions marched from the Estrela Basilica to the São Bento Palace, chanting slogans such as “health, education, social security are universal rights,” “the struggle continues,” and “salary increases are urgent and necessary.”

The coordinator of the Common Front, Sebastião Santana, stated that the proposal for a 15% salary increase, with a minimum of 150 euros, is “fair in the path of recovering purchasing power.”

“We are certainly open to negotiations, but we will not negotiate the halves of percentages, the ones and twos that the Government has applied,” he added.

Sebastião Santana also mentioned that this demand is “perfectly feasible,” adding that “the State Budget has items that, if distributed differently, would allow for this increase or even larger increases.”

The secretary-general of the CGTP, Tiago Oliveira, also present at the protest, told reporters that there is a “set of public services that have been completely neglected and depleted by the policies that have been followed.”

“This Government places in its program a continuation of a policy of degradation of public services, an attack on the National Health Service, an attack on public schools, and now an attack on Social Security,” he added.

Tiago Oliveira further remarked that the integrated system of management and performance evaluation in public administration (SIADAP) is “misaligned and inadequate for the valorization of the careers of public administration workers.”

The secretary-general of the CGTP accused the Government of being “committed to right-wing policies that increasingly impose difficulties on workers’ life perspectives.”

During the protest, the song Grândola Vila Morena by Zeca Afonso could be heard, along with a group of youths playing drums as they led the march to the São Bento Palace.

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