In Setubal, the IL leader asked for a clear majority for his party and for the Christian Democratic Party, which brings together the PSD, CDS-PP and PPM, saying: “There is only one table capable of bringing about the change the country needs, and that is the table where the IL and AD sit.”
The Secretary General of the Socialist Party went to Évora to express his hope of opening, as Prime Minister, the Central Hospital of Alentejo in February 2025, a project widely considered impossible to achieve by the private health sector.
Pedro Nuno Santos reiterated the Socialist Party's refusal to shift resources to the private sector, highlighting the commitment to expanding the National Health Service (SNS) to include oral and mental health.
In Macedo de Cavaleiros, Chega pledged to abolish all fees if he took office, stating that he would form a “government committee” in the first month after taking office, to put an immediate end to those fees in the interior and the Via do Infante.
Andre Ventura stated: “If Chiga becomes a government on the tenth day, within the first thirty days we will form a committee to abolish tolls throughout the national territory, a committee that will lay the foundations for the abolition of tolls throughout the territory.”
Mariana Mortagua, coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) party in Lisbon, stressed the party's commitment to combating the housing crisis and considered that “the only survey that matters” is surveying people on the street.
“I know that people are aware of the bloc's work to combat the housing crisis and reduce house prices in the way we told the country: this is the priority,” he said.
With health being the main topic, the Secretary General of the Palestine Communist Party took advantage of the riots in Queluz, to challenge the end of breast cancer surgeries in seven local health units, Publico reported today, and accused the Socialist Party of saying one thing. And do the opposite with regard to SNS.
Paulo Raimondo, leader of the CDU party (Unified Democratic Coalition, which brings together the PCP and PEV), also warned against the issue of daycare sharing and defended “a public network of daycare centers” in the state, “not to compete, but to be a complementarity factor” with existing institutions.
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