Livre’s spokesperson accused this Saturday one part of the right of having “the king in its belly” and another of wanting to rush the approval of several proposals, including the labor package, before a “ricochet” in public opinion.
“I believe that the right, at this moment, has the king in its belly, with the illusion that it can do anything. Another realizes that the time until there is a ricochet of public opinion in relation to the attitudes of the right in recent times is short and, therefore, it has to move forward with as many of its proposals as possible before they definitively lose public opinion.”, defended Rui Tavares.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, on the sidelines of a lecture on “The Economy of Welfare”, Tavares was questioned about joining the CGTP demonstration against the labor package held on Friday.
In the opinion of Livre’s spokesperson, who congratulated the union center for joining, the polls are already beginning to reflect dissatisfaction against the right “and, next year, we will see them reflecting this more and more”.
Tavares accused the right, the majority in parliament, of being “far from social meaning” and accused the Government and the parties that support it of “living in the past”, considering that the electoral result of the last legislative elections allows them to act on issues that “they did not raise for discussion during the elections themselves”.
“And they live in a past in relation to their own work relationships and the economy. They are projecting Portugal into the past, into a country of low wages and low productivity, long working hours”, he lamented, highlighting that “the most productive and prosperous societies” are moving in the opposite direction.
Tavares anticipated two “confronting” views in the Assembly of the Republic soon and assured that Livre “will present its vision of what an economy focused on national prosperity and individual quality of life would be and, evidently, will oppose a labor package that is the opposite of this”.
Moments earlier, at Livraria Castro e Silva, in Lisbon, Rui Tavares participated in a lecture entitled “Economy of Futures: The Economy of Wellbeing” with Jamie Kendrick, political advisor for the European Greens, and Livre deputy Patrícia Gonçalves.
During the debate, the idea was defended that the current economic model is not generating quality of life for the individual or society, creating exhausted and exhausted citizens. Jamie Kendrick mentioned, for example, that although the housing crisis is transversal to several European countries, Lisbon “is the epicenter of this crisis”.
Rui Tavares said that Livre is often accused of “not wanting to work” by other political forces, for defending the four-day work week, but insisted that it is in this direction that we must move. To argue the importance of the topic, the Livre spokesperson recalled that between 1981 and 1983 there was already a Ministry of Quality of Life, led by Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles.
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