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The Minister of Economy, Pedro Siza Vieira, defended this Monday in Coimbra that the Government should be a “beacon of stability” in the country’s economic recovery process.
“It is absolutely essential that the Government can be a beacon of stability,” said Pedro Siza Vieira, while emphasizing the role of the PS and the Executive in supporting the relaunch of the national economy.
The Minister of State, Economy and Digital Transition spoke at the conference of national and regional leaders of the PS, about the country’s recovery from the negative impacts of the covid-19 pandemic, held in Coimbra, in the São Francisco Convent, with the presence of the party’s secretary general and prime minister, António Costa.
After the impacts of the pandemic, the economy will tend to “get closer to what it was”, however, “this economic growth will be less intense” than in March, when the new coronavirus was detected in December in the city of Wuhan, China. , arrived in Portugal, he predicted.
“The next few times there will be a hangover. Many companies will not be able to survive and many jobs will be lost ”, warned the Minister of Economy, speaker of the debate“ Recover Portugal ”, in which his counterpart from Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, also spoke.
When making a comparison with the international crisis that broke out in 2018, Pedro Siza Vieira emphasized that, “this time, the European Union responded to the height” of the complexity of the new social, economic and financial problems, which, in his opinion, did not it happened at that time.
The Government member was applauded when, in this context, he praised António Costa’s role “in building this solution” with other European leaders.
“The previous crisis gave” many lessons “that could” help solve “the problematic situations created by covid-19, he predicted.
“It is a difficult crisis”, however, “we are going to build a more prosperous and fairer society”, underlined Pedro Siza Vieira, before the president of the PS of Madeira, Paulo Cafôfo, a deputy to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, took the podium. this autonomous region.
In the opinion of the Minister of Economy, “unemployment will rise, but it will be below the previous crisis.”
For her part, Ana Mendes Godinho defended that “these times demand more changes”, since the pandemic affected people “unevenly”.
“This is the moment to make the need to accelerate our priorities,” he stressed.
The Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security highlighted the importance of “breaking the cycles of under-qualification and poverty” and of building solutions based on “effective social dialogue”.
“Workers, in social peace, have to be an active part of the solution,” taking into account that “the alternative to social peace is rupture,” he said.
For Ana Mendes Godinho, the current pandemic “has shown that it is possible to respond in record time to the needs of people and companies” in the country.
“We are facing a structural and technological revolution in Social Security,” he said at the end of his speech.
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