The President of the Republic has nominated Luís Montenegro to form and present the government. This decision paves the way for the continuation of a policy directed against the interests of the workers and the people, aligned with the agenda of the economic groups and multinationals, aimed at exacerbating the attack on social, political and democratic rights and jeopardising national interests and sovereignty.
A nomination made on the basis of the conditions and guarantees given, in particular by the PS, ensuring support and backing the entry into office of the AD government and supporting the viability of its policy.
The support now reaffirmed by the PS for AD to allow it, in the name of a so-called “governability” and “responsibility”, to pursue its actions and objectives is an expression of the convergence between these two parties on the most essential aspects of right-wing policy.
What is present in the political and institutional framework is an implicit agreement between PS and AD, which creates the conditions for pursuing an anti-popular policy that will not provide an answer to the problems facing the people and the Country. It is an agreement that will open up space for political forces that, while fully sharing the right-wing policy, will cynically try to show themselves as opposition, disguise their agreement with the PSD and CDS government programme, disguise their reactionary agenda and their true anti-democratic nature and objectives. What is needed is to isolate the right-wing policy and its reactionary agenda and to fight the right-wing forces without hesitation, be they PSD and CDS, or Chega and IL, and not to extend a helping hand to those who continue it and offer themselves as a support force for this policy and this agenda.
The PCP also stresses that the favourable circumstances now created for Chega's agenda cannot and should not translate into presenting this party as what it is not. What Chega wants is to take its reactionary and retrograde projects further, to be a privileged instrument at the service of the economic groups that fund it, promoting the exploitation of workers, the destruction of social rights and attacks on freedoms and guarantees, its project of subverting the democratic regime. The staging of opposition that Chega has already begun, favoured by the circumstances that the PS has once again offered it, cannot conceal its true anti-democratic agenda and objectives, the risks that its actions represent for the rights of workers, pensioners, youth, for freedom and democracy.
The PCP will clearly and courageously confront the projects and agenda of the right - whichever it may be - and what it represents at the service of the interests of big capital. It will do so by immediately tabling a motion to reject the government's programme, with what this means in terms of political clarification and opposition to the AD government. A motion that right away expresses a position of denouncing and fighting the right-wing and its projects. Faced with an AD government with an anti-popular project with which Chega and IL identify and which the PS makes viable, the PCP will take up its position of opposition to the government and its policy, with initiative and determination, and calls on the workers, the youth and the people to use all the rights enshrined in the Constitution to defend their interests and promote the rupture and change that the Country needs.