1. The power outage in Portugal on April 28, due to the disruption, costs and impacts it caused, calls for measures to contribute to the rapid restoration of supply - prioritising essential services to the population, including health services, civil protection, security, transport, education, communications, water supply and social care - and to support and aid the population, as well as a rigorous investigation into the causes of the outage and the identification of options to guarantee Portugal's energy security and sovereignty in the future.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution of 1917 and of the first Socialist State, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born on April 22, 1870. To mark the 155th anniversary of his birth and to recall his role and that of his Party in the emancipatory struggle of the workers and peoples of the whole world is a duty of remembrance, but it is above all a cause for inspiration and confidence in the present-day struggle for the revolutionary overcoming of Capitalism, against Imperialism and against war, for democracy, social progress, peace and Socialism.

Dear comrades and friends,

PSD/CDS´s governance was marked by a gigantic propaganda operation (which continues even though it is a caretaker government, not shying away from using state resources to benefit the PSD and CDS), with successive announcements to hide the lack of response to the problems of the people and the Country. But the government's actions were not just announcements to deceive the people.

A great journey, a great march, a great action for the better life that the workers, people and youth have a right to.

A welcome to all those who are here and to all those around the Country, Party and JCP militants but also many friends, who have been carrying out the national action “Increase wages and pensions, for a better life”.

An initiative that we are continuing here today, a journey of contact, clarification and mobilisation.