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“The only virus that will spread [no congresso] it is the virus of the fight for a better future for our people and for our country, “said the former communist parliamentary leader, in a greeting to the XXI congress, at the Peace and Friendship Pavilion, in Loures, Lisbon district.
Much applauded by the delegates, the communist mayor responded, without quoting him, to Deputy Adão Silva, of the PSD, who spoke of the “saloia ability” of the congress and said that with that “saloia ability” the chamber has a 25 million program. euros to support micro, small and medium entrepreneurs or local businesses.
Bernardino Soares contested, in a generic way, the measures to contain the epidemic outbreak since March and warned that “the” attack on workers’ rights “, the degradation of public services and the NHS” is not a fight against the pandemic. ” , the “suspension of culture”., political and partisan freedoms ”.
“This is a fight against the pandemic, it is a fight against democracy,” he said, ending the speech with the affirmation that “without democracy there is no health, rights, progress or future.”
PSD condemns the use of the school with risks for children, Bernardino without comment
“Sorry from the mayor [o comunista Bernardino Soares]Not only his silence, but the way in which he ignored this request for information ”, protested in a statement the president of PSD / Loures, Nelson Batista.
The social democratic council asked the mayor of Loures (CML) about the closure of the António Feliciano Bastos pavilion, in the neighboring António Carvalho Figueiredo Institute, to serve as a “cafeteria” for the PCP congressmen.
Present at the great communist meeting, in which he has already spoken, Bernardino Soares limited himself to declaring to the Lusa agency: “I have no comment to make.”
For the Social Democrats, the situation “reveals a total commitment of the Loures City Council with the organization of the congress, in an attitude that reveals a total reluctance in the way of treating and endangers the health and safety of hundreds of students.”
“It is not acceptable that hundreds of students are deprived of their normal physical education classes and that, in order to take other subjects, they have to cross a few meters with the approximately 600 congressmen”, criticizes PSD / Loures.
Nelson Batista repudiated what he described as “a boastful and truly disrespectful action by the citizens of Lourens in particular and the Portuguese in general, considering how abusive it is putting people at risk.”
To solve the problem of meals, due to the curfew starting at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and the closure of the restaurants in the vicinity, the PCP reserved the pavilion of that school and also the facilities near the Corps Volunteer Firefighters of Loures for meals of the event organizers.
Today is the first of three days of work at the XXI National Congress of the PCP, in Pavilhão Paz e Amizade, in Loures
