The general secretary of the Communists said today that the PCP is “the opposition to the government” that has no doubts, hesitations or illusions and warned that the executive headed by Luís Montenegro will not have it easy.
Paulo Raimundo was speaking at the end of a PCP session on April 25, at the Academia Almadense, in Almada, in the district of Setúbal, where he called for popular mobilization to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution and argued that “it is on the road to April” that the answers to the country’s problems lie.
“The new PSD/CDS government, with its 17 ministers, its 41 secretaries of state and the whole battery of supporters well positioned in various relevant points of national life, no matter how much it tries to fool the people with this or that woolly-footed entry, with this or that one-off measure, is not going to have it easy,” he said.
Paulo Raimundo then defended the PCP’s initiative to present a motion in parliament to reject the government’s program: “We don’t need any more presentations, what we know already confirms the rightness of our motion”.
According to the PCP secretary-general, it will certainly be a program “of steps backwards, of setbacks, markedly counter-revolutionary”, with “options from the reactionary right-wing policy, from its commitment to the big economic groups”.
“We know very well what will come of this. We don’t have a short memory and the people and the workers will know how to respond firmly to all the attacks they are subjected to and they will take their fate into their own hands and demand concrete answers to their problems,” he added.
Paulo Raimundo was astonished that “there are those who have an apparent expectation of what is to come from this government”.
“For our part, we are here determined, convinced and we have no doubts and harbor no illusions. We are the opposition to the government and its reactionary policy and project, and we have been so without hesitation from the first minute,” he said.
