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"Mr President, every day, the agreement concluded between the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the European Union and the Portuguese
is exposed for what it is: a pact of aggression against the Portuguese people and workers. We in Portugal are experiencing a situation of continuous economic recession that led, in the second quarter of 2011 alone, to more than 157 000 jobs being lost and 40 000 companies going out of business. Unemployment in its broad sense has hit 20.3%, a quarter of the Portuguese population is living on the breadline and the imbalances in income distribution are deepening.
Under the pretext of the crisis, the government is attempting to withdraw rights from workers, casting them into instability and unemployment. Under the pretext of the crisis and at the order of the European institutions, it is renouncing the country’s collective property and wealth by privatising sectors like electricity, and cutting funding for the Portuguese health service and increasing charges for users, a measure which could be shamefully tied in with the spike in the death rate in Portugal. Moreover, faced with all this social disaster, the European institutions, the government and the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) carry on shouting out the same measures.
Portugal needs a new course that includes renegotiation of debt, state support for productive activities, the return of strategic sectors of the economy to public ownership and genuinely redistributive tax reform."@en1
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