The parliamentary leader of the PCP announced this Tuesday, March 17th, that the party had scheduled a debate with the Government on the 25th on “general policy”, focusing on the “escalation of prices as a result of the war in the Middle East on living conditions” in Portugal.
At the end of the PCP’s parliamentary days, Paula Santos said that the party asked the Government for an interpellation, an instrument available to parliamentary groups through which members of the executive can be forced to present themselves to the Assembly of the Republic for a plenary debate.
The leader of the communist group said that the war in Iran, which “in addition to the tragic effects it is having in the loss of human lives in the region, is destabilizing the entire world economy”.
“The effects in Portugal are already being felt, particularly with the brutal increase in fuel prices, and if this war is not fought immediately, the effects will be dramatic in terms of inflation, leading to an abrupt loss of purchasing power on the part of the population,” he stated.
Paula Santos said that the government needs to give a “firm response” to the current situation and defended that economic groups be called upon to use their profits to help respond to the consequences of the conflict.
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