The Communist Secretary-General on Tuesday accused the government of having considered “only in isolation” the proposals put forward by the PCP in the 2022 budget, arguing that the national minimum wage remains below what the country needs.
“The point we have reached today is well known (…), the government has only considered some of the PCP’s proposals in isolation,” said Jerónimo de Sousa, during the debate in parliament on the general assessment of the proposed budget for 2022.
The General Secretary of the PCP said that “there are only no answers because the PS does not want them” and that the “example of the National Minimum Wage confirms that it was not for lack of persistence or openness of the PCP that solutions were found”.
Since 2020, the communist leader continued, the PCP had presented the proposal to increase the national minimum wage to 850 euros and that “since March this year” the socialist executive “has set the goal of €705 in 2022 and €750 in 2023”.
“To the hundreds of thousands of workers on a €705 salary, what is left for them if they want to have the “luxury” of dreaming of the right to housing? Or how can young couples decide with the freedom to have children on this salary? There is no future for a country based on low wages”, he said.
