On the eve of International Women's Day, I would like to address a greeting to women, working women, working class women, intellectuals, all women, mothers, grandmothers, women who struggle every day for a better life and the implementation of their rights. History shows us that women are not passive subjects. They were and are the protagonists of many, many struggles for rights, equality and emancipation.

Mr Chairman, Mr Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, With the authority and coherence of those who, from the outset, did not harbour expectations, denounced and fought the government's actions and refused any complicity with its decisions, including the State Budget, the PCP is here today presenting a motion of censure with the clear aim of defeating the government and its policies.

A year after this government took office, what we are witnessing proves exactly what the PCP said a year ago, that this is a government at the service of the economic groups; a government that encourages promiscuity between the economic groups and the interests of the State; a government that encourages all this promiscuity and promotes a real conflict of interests between the economic groups and the interests of those who can't access the National Health Service, those who have difficulty accessing housing; those who have salaries that are too short for the long month they have to face

The PCP strongly condemns the Trump administration's unacceptable decision to re-include Cuba on the arbitrary US list of so-called “State Sponsors of Terrorism”. Cuba should never have been included on this illegitimate list, especially when it is the US that has for decades been promoting a terrorist policy against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution.