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The Survival of Bread and Water Movement, which groups together businessmen and restaurant workers and the like, asked the President of the Republic to “urgently intercede in favor of the sector,” with some members, including the chef. Ljubomir Stanisic, started a hunger strike.
This movement, which brings together businessmen and workers in restaurants, bars, discos, culture, events, lodging and taxis, was received today at the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic, and revealed that they had the opportunity to “present their ideas and proposals, requesting the president [Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa] to urgently intercede in favor of the sector ”.
Without concrete and immediate responses to the requests presented, and considering the urgency of measures to support a sector that has already been dying for nine months, and which, now, with the new restrictions, is entering an even more dramatic phase, the Movement does not have another option but to continue this fight ”, highlights the note.
Representing the movement, they were Ljubomir Stanisic, José Gouveia and Manuel Salema, and this meeting “followed a request for a hearing” on November 16, “addressed to the President of the Republic, but also to the Prime Minister, Dr. António Costa, and the Minister of State, Economy and Digital Transition, Dr. Pedro Siza Vieira “.
“Of the three orders shipped, only the email addressed to the Office of the President, received a response, and today the requested hearing was completed, ”the statement also highlights.
For the Survivors Bread and Water movement, although it is not the responsibility of the President of the Republic to legislate, it is “one of his functions to call the attention of the Assembly of the Republic on any matter that, in his opinion, requires parliamentary intervention.”
Since last Friday, in the tents set up in front of the Assembly of the Republic, some members of the movement have been on hunger strike, among them Ljubomir Stanisic, “as a form of protest and in solidarity with all those who, for the moment, are they already have what to eat “you can read.
“For 43% of us, caterers and the like, we are thinking of going bankrupt. For 19% of us, tourist accommodation companies, we are thinking of closing the doors. For those who were on the way. For the more than 49 thousand jobs lost in the catering and hospitality sector during the third quarter of 2020. For all those who will lose their job, their livelihood, food on the table if the help does not arrive already ”, also refers.
On Instagram, Ljubomir Stanisic has shared some moments of this hunger strike. “Hunger strike. Until when?” chef, in that social network, as a caption of a video of the demonstrations before the Assembly of the Republic. Ljubomir Stanisic also posted a video on the Movement’s page, in which one of the protesters is seen, visibly shocked. “We are starting to collapse. But we will not give up!”
It is recalled that the covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,433,378 deaths derived from more than 60.9 million cases of contagion around the world, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 4,276 people died out of 285,838 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
Measures to combat COVID-19 have paralyzed entire sectors of the world economy and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the pandemic will reverse the gains made since the 1990s in terms of poverty and increase inequality.
The IMF predicts a 4.4% drop in the world economy in 2020, with a contraction of 4.3% in the United States and 5.3% in Japan, while China is expected to grow 1.9%.
By 2021, the Washington-based organization forecasts 5.2% growth in the global economy, compared to 2020.
For Portugal, the IMF predicts a 10% drop in 2020 and a 6.5% recovery by 2021.
These forecasts differ from those of the Portuguese Government, which foresees a drop in the economy of 8.5% this year, and a recovery of 5.4% in 2021.
The European Commission predicts a 9.3% drop in the Portuguese economy in 2020 and 5.4% growth next year.
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