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António Saraiva’s successor in the Portuguese Business Confederação (CIP) was officially elected: Armindo Monteiro was elected, this Thursday, with 87% of the votes.
The elections featured a single list headed by Armindo Monteiro, who will take office on April 12. On Rádio Observador, on the eve of the elections, Monteiro said that he would have preferred to have competition in the race for the leadership of the CIP: “I like to establish a position, a course, and for this reason, perhaps, I would like this course to be discussed presenting an alternative.
[Oiça aqui a participação de Armindo Monteiro no programa “Explicador” da Rádio Observador]
Accommodation. New president of the CIP speaks of “delusion of the government legislature”
In the Rádio Observador program “Explainer”, he defended a “clear and unequivocal defense” of private initiative and criticized the so-called “decent work agenda”, a set of reforms to the labor law recently approved in Parliament against the will of the employer unions, but with the abstention of the PSD.
“I am concerned about the position of both the majority and the minority, the opposition to the Government. Because there was no political force that dared to take a position of defense, of concern for the situation of companies in Portugal. And this is very dangerous: when no political force understands that it wins votes to side with the private sector, which creates jobs in Portugal. It should make us all reflect in society,” he said.
Last letter from António Saraiva to the CIP: Government in 2022 “fell short” and rising unemployment is “a sign to take into account”
Armindo Monteiro thus replaces António Saraiva, who was in charge of one of the most important business confederations in Portugal for 12 years. In the farewell letter sent to the entrepreneurs —entitled “2022 – the year companies saved jobs; 2023 –year in which the PRR has to reach the economy”, Saraiva left several criticisms of the Government –whose response last year “fell short”–, as well as warnings –the unemployment rate is “certainly a sign of having consider”.
Source: Observadora
