The leader of the Left Bloc (BE), Mariana Mortágua, highlighted three proposals from a set that the party wants to see approved in the State Budget for 2025 and said that she refuses to issue blank checks to the Government.
“Eliminate that legislative authorization that no one knows what it is for and that it can affect the rights of all public workers without any guarantee. And this is even a constitutional issue,” highlighted Mariana Mortágua.
In this sense, he maintained that “Parliament does not have to give blank checks to the Government, the Government does not govern by power, nor by check, no more controls in the management of the State.”
This measure is part of “a set of proposals from the Left Bloc that must be approved in the State Budget”, of the three that Mariana Mortágua highlighted today, during a friendly lunch, at the party headquarters in Viseu.
“Second: put an end to the one-for-one rule. The one-for-one rule is a condemnation of the State. Third: Ensure that conditions exist so that the tenders that need to be opened are filled.“, he highlighted.
That is to say, he added, “when a competition for nurses is opened, when a competition for specialists in medical emergencies is opened, there are enough people” and, this means that, “opening competitions in the INEM, in Health, is giving careers.” . .
Careers not only in the area of Health, he exemplified, but also in Education, Justice, Security, forestry sappers so that the country “is not always chasing losses” and can prepare to “have a State capable of facing the future.” .”
Mariana Mortágua highlighted that the Government reached an agreement with professional unions “more capable of demanding and making more noise”, but, at the same time, included the “one by one rule” in the State Budget for 2025.
“In which only one enters public service, if one leaves. The teachers who were already overwhelmed will continue to be overwhelmed,” he highlighted, in addition to other professionals such as, for example, nurses, doctors, forest guards, firefighters, sheriffs or educational assistants.
That is, “in order for there to be one more nurse, a teacher must leave” as in other professional fields and, in his opinion, “there is a problem: there is a lack of workers in all these public services,”
“And, at the same time that he does this, he writes an article in the Budget that is a legislative authorization, in which he requests authorization from the Assembly of the Republic to change labor legislation in public functions and what he wants to do. The right to strike, mobility, vacations and sickness benefits are changed,” he stated.
“We asked the Government: what do you want to change? He doesn’t say it. […] “He wants Parliament to offer him a blank check to change the law and we don’t know how,” he accused.
The blocker said that the Government “says that it is going to reach an agreement with the unions and after reaching an agreement with the unions, it needs to have broad authorization to be able to change the law as it sees fit.”
“An agreement with the unions does not change the law. The law is changed in the Assembly of the Republic so that everyone knows what is being changed,” he defended.
In her speech, lasting almost half an hour, at the end of lunch, Mariana Mortágua dedicated a large part of her speech to the Health sector and the “wear and tear and lack of responsibility” of the Government that took office seven months ago.
Before, she listened to the president of the Independent Union of Forestry, Environmental and Civil Protection Workers (SinFAP), Alexandre Carvalho, who asked Mariana Mortágua to bring the problems of professionals in the sector to debate in Parliament.
Source: Observadora
