Statement of the members of the PCP in the European Parliament
On the attack on the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and on the rights and sovereignty of the Portuguese people, invoking «the crisis of the rule of law in Poland»
October 22, 2021
We need measures to counter increases in fuel price
October 19, 2021
The successive increases in fuel prices are a matter of great concern for most of the Portuguese and, due to the impacts they have on the entire economy, call into question the need for recovery considering the situation that the country is still facing. The PCP considers it is essential to take urgent measures to counter these price increases, combining the fight against price speculation with fiscal measures.
«We could ask: how do the answers that the workers and the people demand contribute to the alleged crisis?»
October 16, 2021
Greetings to all of you and through you to the workers and people of Porto and this whole Region. Greetings also and our appreciation to all our friends of the Ecologist Party «The Greens», of the Democratic Intervention, to the thousands of independents and activists of the CDU who were side by side with us in the recent electoral combat for Local Government which we fought together, creating a great campaign of contact with the populations.
A global response to national problems and the State Budget proposal for 2022
October 12, 2021
The situation and dimension of the national problems require solutions to face them. Other options and an alternative path are needed that contemplate the issues that mark the lives of the workers, the people and the country. The debate on the State Budget must be part of this global response, which is as necessary as it is pressing. The Budget has its own value, but it is – it must be – an expression and translation of these options.
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PCP condemns US support for the occupation of Western Sahara
11 December 2020
The PCP strongly condemns the support of the United States Administration to the occupation of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco, in return for it to normalise relations with Israel, which for decades has illegally occupied Palestinian territories and oppresses the Palestinian people.
The unacceptable recognition of the occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, now declared by the Trump Administration, is part of the US policy of consistent affront against the sovereignty and rights of peoples and, consequently, against international law.
Statement by Sandra Pereira, PCP’s MP in the European Parliament
On the European Council of December 10 and 11
11 December 2020
As expected, the European Council approved the new Multiannual Financial Framework, as well as the “Recovery Fund”.
The difficulties and stalemates surrounding the approval of these financial instruments, and the way in which they were overcome, confirm contradictions and problems indissociable from the nature of the European Union, which are far from being resolved and which go beyond obvious divergences with Hungary and Poland.
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On the elections for the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
7 December 2020
The elections for the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - held under the impact of a cruel economic and financial blockade - represented an affirmation in defence of the path of national sovereignty and independence, justice and social progress, development and cooperation by the Venezuelan people.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Lisbon
45th Anniversary of the liberation of the peoples of the former Portuguese colonies
3 December 2020
Please allow me to begin by valuing and thanking the presence of representatives of MPLA, PAICV, PAIGC and FRELIMO in this meeting promoted by the PCP commemorating the 45th anniversary of the gaining of independence by the African peoples of the Portuguese colonies.
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Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Loures, XXI Congress of the PCP
Closing Speech XXI Congress of the PCP
29 November 2020
We are coming to end of the XXI Congress of the PCP. We have come a long way in the process of preparing it and holding it.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Loures, XXI Congress of the PCP
Opening of the XXI Congress of the PCP
27 November 2020
First and foremost, I would like to greet the delegates to the XXI Congress who are here representing our entire party collective and wish them well in their work.
We are holding our Congress in a very different context from what is usual, as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Persistence and determination to find concrete solutions for the workers and people
26 November 2020
The PCP intervened in the debate on this Budget denouncing the profound shortcomings and limitations of the proposal that the Government presented more than a month ago. As we stressed from the beginning, both the Budget Proposal and the Government's options, which lie beyond the Budget, do not respond to the needs of the country. But we have also always said that, given the seriousness of the national situation, we would not give up fighting the battle to the end to find solutions.
Statement by João Oliveira, Member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee of the PCP
On the evaluation and final vote on the State Budget for 2021
25 November 2020
The path of analysis and intervention that the PCP has had on the State Budget is public knowledge. As we have emphasised from the beginning, both the Budget Proposal and the Government's options that go beyond the Budget do not correspond to the demands facing the country.
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Statement by João Oliveira, President of the Parliamentary Group and member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee
On the start of voting on the specialty of the 2021 State Budget proposal
20 November 2020
The vote on the specialty of the State Budget proposal for next year starts this afternoon. We are all aware of the situation we are experiencing.
The situation is indeed exceptional and needs an exceptional response. It was in this sense that the PCP presented more than 300 proposals covering practically all areas of national life.
Problems that are already present and that are likely to be heightened must have a serious answer. There are options that the Government has to make. In and outside the Budget, otherwise the way is open for the situation to worsen.
Speech by , Debate on the request for authorization to renew the state of emergency
What is the rationale of seeking to guarantee health by instilling fear and insecurity in people?
20 November 2020
It is necessary to relieve the pressure that is placed on the NHS, avoid its rupture and create conditions to provide for the other health care situations. The restrictive measures that have been imposed under the state of emergency do not allow the necessary stopping of the epidemic and are simultaneously throwing the country into an unsustainable economic and social situation.
We said fifteen days ago that the declaration of a State of Emergency should be rejected.