National Issues

Thousands on the streets of Lisbon, Oporto and Braga

28th November Thousands participated in the marches and concentrations promoted by CGTP-IN in Lisbon, Oporto and Braga, on November 28, demanding compliance with the Constitution, a change of policy and the answer to the claims, problems and aspirations of the workers and the people.

"The final and definitive defeat of the PSD/CDS coalition is consummated"

About the nomination of António Costa Statement of the General Secretary of the PCP

On the demands by the President of the Republic

The demands made by the President of the Republic to the General Secretary of the PS are a new and final attempt by Cavaco Silva, in confrontation with the Constitution of the Republic, to save the PSD/CDS majority and create a new excuse in line with the institutional obstruction of the existing governing solution.

On the «Joint Position by the PS and the PCP on the political solution»

Four years after PSD/CDS entered into government, the country found itself thrown into a situation of economic decline, social regression, foreign dependence and impoverishment of the democratic regime that mark the national reality as it stands.

Statement of the PCP’s Central Committee Meeting, on November 8, 2015

The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on the November 8, 2015, examined the developments of the political framework resulting from the October 4 elections and the economic and social situation that the workers and the people are facing; identified the development of the mass struggle as a central feature to ensure the raising of the living standards and emphasized the strategic importance of m

On the Central Committee Meeting of the PCP, on November 8, 2015

The legislative elections confirmed what for long the workers and the people have been maintaining with their struggle - the defeat of the PSD/CDS and of their policy. The new relationship of forces which exists in the Assembly of the Republic holds a potential to address the most pressing problems affecting the workers and the populations which cannot be wasted.

On the decision and announcement by the President of the Republic regarding the nomination of the Prime Minister

On the part of the PCP, Cavaco Silva’s decision to nominate Passos Coelho to form government will founder in the Assembly of the Republic with the approval of a motion to reject the government programme that may be presented by PSD and CDS.

Removing the PSD and CDS government is an imperative of the majority of the Portuguese people

At a rally in Lisbon with many hundreds of participants, Jerónimo de Sousa said that "Removing the PSD and CDS government represents an imperative to honour the will of the majority of the Portuguese people. It is this aspiration that the PCP “will seek to meet without hesitation" , adding that "whatever the circumstances and the evolution of the situation (...) the votes of PCP’s MPs will always contribute to all measures that are useful to the workers, the people and the Country and will oppose all that means more exploitation, impoverishment, social injustice and national decline."