“This is the program that strengthens and supports this policy of deals and schemes to extract resources from the State, which means taking every possible transfer from each of our pockets to give to those who consider themselves owners of the country,” said Paulo Raimundo during the CDU regional gathering in Estarreja, in the district of Aveiro.
In his speech, the communist leader noted that the electoral results from the legislative elections created conditions to accentuate the policy of inequalities and exploitation and used the Government’s program as an example, stating that, as the communists had warned, it is “a program of propaganda, a business program and of dealings.”
“It’s dealing in the National Health Service, transferring everything to those who make illness a business, it’s dealing in housing, more support, more perks for the banks, it’s dealing around privatizations, with the field open, in TAP, but not just in TAP, it’s everything that’s there,” he said.
Raimundo also accused the Government led by Luís Montenegro of wanting to strike a blow to labor laws “to further precarize, to increase working hours, and to extend work time” and urged opposition parties to block this program.
“Those who accused us of being hasty still have time to backtrack and, with us, prevent this Government program from moving forward (…) We would not allow such a program to bypass the Assembly,” he stated.
The program of the XXV Constitutional Government was delivered today to the Assembly of the Republic and will be debated on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The document has 10 priority axes, committing to “a policy of income that values work and savings, merit and social justice,” state reform, or wealth creation.
The other priorities identified by the Government include a “regulated and humanist immigration,” “quality” public services, a focus on “closer security, faster justice and fighting corruption,” housing, construction of new infrastructure, the project “the water that unites,” and a “strategic reinforcement plan for defense investment.”
