First of all, on behalf of the Central Committee, please allow me to greet our whole Party, its organisations, all the militants who in companies, in workplaces, in cities, towns and villages, in class-oriented and associative movements, in the various institutions, in Local and Regional Government, in the Assembly of the Republic and in the European Parliament, who, in these difficult times of epidemic outbreak, wherever necessary, fulfil their role and our duty to uphold the interests of the workers and people.

Please accept a warm greeting for your initiative. This greeting is all the more justified, since it is held in a context of special difficulties for the action and for the struggle that young communists, during these weeks, were able to face, never ceasing to be, with digital means or in person, where the youth are, accompanying their problems and aspirations, and assuming the demand for the necessary answers.

Good afternoon, everyone, participants and those who are following this debate. Our thanks to the speakers of this session and especially to Ricardo Paes Mamede for accepting the invitation to participate in it. Among others, there are three great lessons that can be learned from this crisis, of health and economic, that I would like to highlight in this debate. The centrality of work, of workers; the enormous importance, of public services, of public intervention; the core issue of national production and national sovereignty.

1 – Two months after shows, rehearsals and recordings began to be cancelled due to COVID-19, PCP has a negative evaluation of the government's response to the dramatic situation of thousands of workers and hundreds of structures.