Presidential candidate João Cotrim Figueiredo said this Saturday, December 6, that he cannot classify the general strike as being based on political motivations, contrary to what the prime minister defended in the fortnightly debate in parliament.
Luís Montenegro said on Friday in parliament that the general strike “does not make sense” from the workers’ point of view, considering that it is politically motivated and that changing labor legislation is just “a pretext”.
João Cotrim Figueiredo, who was speaking to journalists at the Sevenair aviation school, at the Ponte de Sor Municipal Aerodrome, Portalegre district, considered that, on the part of CGTP, the strike has political motivations, but not on the part of UGT.
“I cannot qualify it as [uma greve com motivações políticas]I think there are political motivations on the CGTP side, certainly, as it always has been. On the UGT side, it does not seem to me that there was this initial motivation, therefore, it is a disagreement about the content of the labor package in which the strike, in the absence of an agreement, is a legitimate outcome”he defended.