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João Ferreira

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João Ferreira

Portuguese biologist and politician
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(TR) Coins wanted to hold a council meeting on the day of the General Strike. But the essential workers for the meeting... went on strike! The meeting did not happen, and someone learned a lesson in courage and dignity.

(TR) There are studios where they only talk about the general strike to say that they do not talk about the general strike. And yet, it happens. There will also be workers joining the strike here, starting tonight. Because here too (some will say especially here) there are plenty of reasons.

(TR) At the same time that they close urgent and necessary hospital services that are needed by the population, they have the audacity to inaugurate private hospitals. They induce a scarcity of response in the SNS (general, universal, tendentially free, according to the Constitution) to make the business viable.

(TR) The properties should not have been sold, but rather directed to public housing. Moedas, in his Municipal Housing Charter, says that 11,000 (public) housing units are needed in 10 years in Lisbon. He just has no idea how he will do it. They could - they should - start here.

(TR) With this bill from the PCP, an important step is taken to do justice to thousands of researchers and to undo the contradiction of the country continuing to push many of those it needs into emigration.

(TR) The government's draft decree-law proposal for the revision of the principles of social action policy in higher education is an affront to…