The first parliamentary sessions of the Liberal Initiative (IL) begin this Monday in Coimbra, dedicated to the issue of education, and will feature a speech by the founder and director of the NGO Safeguard Defenders, peter dahlin.
In these, which will be the first parliamentary days of the Liberal Initiative, after going from one deputy to a parliamentary group of eight deputies, we chose the issue of education as the central axis of these two days of work that we will have”, said the leader IL parliamentarian, in statements to the Lusa agency.
Rodrigo Saraiva maintained that these days under the motto “Growing up in Portugal”the theme of education It will be addressed “such as what is the social elevator, engine of growth in Portugal, from access to nurseries, access to basic and secondary education, issues also related to higher education, without forgetting vocational training”.
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Pointing out, however, that “growing up in Portugal is not just about education”, the Liberal deputy highlighted also access to health or “a Social Security that is in fact sustainable” and “also at the level of taxes for when people start to work they do not see that the State permanently takes a large part of what is the fruit of their work“.
Rodrigo Saraiva pointed out that these “are issues that IL has been putting on the political agenda, on the media agenda.”
The IL deputy indicated that in these two days, where The “Azores Regional Legislative Assembly team” will also be presentthe deputies to the Assembly of the Republic “will define the schedule of a set of legislative proposals for the most diverse areas.”
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Now there is a focus on State Budget issues, but we are going beyond the State Budget and that is why we will even define, beyond this legislative session, what will be the proposals that we will present in the Assembly of the Republic at all times”. , He said. .
It will correspond precisely to the parliamentary leader to open the conference, with an intervention scheduled for 10:00. The rest of the day, the deputies will dedicate themselves to “internal work sessions”.
A dinner is scheduled for Monday night, with interventions by the president of IL, Joao Cotrim Figueiredoand also the director of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Safeguard Defenders, Peter Dahlin, who denounced in a report the existence of informal Chinese police stations in Portugal, something that the IL referred to in the debate with the prime minister on Thursday. fair.
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But Peter Dahlin is going to talk to us not only about this report, which is an example of a lot of work that this NGO does, but above all about what are the geostrategic risks, what are the policies of the Chinese regime, the risks that it has at the socially, at a cultural level, at an economic level, because here there are fundamental human rights issues that must be guaranteed,” said the parliamentary leader.
The deputy stressed that “the defense of human rights, of individual freedoms, both in Portugal and in the world” is “an essential point, it is one of the fundamental areas” for IL.
On Tuesday, the IL Parliamentary Caucus will visit two educational establishments, then meet for more closed-door business sessions. The closing of the conference, which will correspond to the president and deputy of the IL, is scheduled for the end of the afternoon, in which João Cotrim Figueiredo “will announce a set of measures and the schedule in which they will be submitted to the Assembly of the Republic”.
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Asked why part of the work takes place behind closed doors, the parliamentary leader explained that the Deputies need “to have extra time for what is the day to day of parliament” and stressed that “parliamentary sessions are for other parties just a media moment to speak”, IL wants, in addition to speaking for the country, be “even at work”.
The Liberals initially planned the parliamentary sessions for September 19 and 20, but they were postponed to coincide with days of national mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Source: Observadora
