PAICV criticizes the government's legislative authorization at the end of its mandate and the priorities of the last session

At a press conference to take stock of the parliamentary days, Clóvis Silva said that the PAICV parliamentary group will take part in the plenary session scheduled for this month despite having initially argued that it should not take place.

According to him, the party raised the issue with the National Electoral Commission (CNE), which ruled that candidate MPs do not need to suspend their mandates, thus legitimizing the holding of the session.

"We put this question to the CNE, which ruled that MPs do not have to suspend their mandates, regardless of whether they are candidates or not, which legitimizes this plenary session," he said.

Also, the deputy considered it inappropriate for the executive to ask, at the end of the mandate, for authorization to legislate during the electoral period, through the diploma that intends to authorize the government to approve the Code of Labor Administrative Offenses.

"The issue that strikes us here is that the government, at the end of its mandate, in the last legislative session, asks for authorization to legislate during the election period, during the election campaign," he criticized.

Of the seven pieces of legislation on the agenda, Clóvis Silva said that most will go to a final overall vote and that only the request for legislative authorization will be discussed in general and in detail.

The parliamentarian also expressed opposition to the law aimed at regularizing the so-called precarious relationships in the public administration, claiming that the government intends to integrate into the workforce officials hired over the course of two legislatures without a competitive examination.

"In the last four months or so, the government has decided to regularize all the workers who joined the civil service during these two legislatures. Anyone who joined as an advisor, on a service commission or as a special staff member is now a civil servant, regardless of whether they take part in a competition or not," he said.

In the MP's view, the law doesn't clearly define the concept of precarious employment and ends up benefiting people with discontinuous links in the public administration.

"Those who are precarious are the people who have been hired verbally and who don't have a signed contract, they don't have a set timetable. Those are precarious and we should be protecting them," he said.

Clóvis Silva also accused the government of ignoring long-standing demands from the health sector, namely the implementation of the Positions, Functions and Remuneration Plan (PCFR).

"We're forgetting, for example, the PCFR for health workers, which seems almost like a strategic campaign weapon to keep telling people who work in the health sector: when we're elected we'll deal with this issue," he said.

The MP assured that resolving the PCFR on health will be one of the PAICV's priorities, arguing that the state must ensure universal access to care for the most vulnerable people.

"It's our commitment. It's one of the first issues that has to be resolved so that this issue is effectively put to one side", he assured.

In his assessment of the ten years of MpD governance, Clóvis Silva pointed out shortcomings in transport, health and opportunities for young people, considering that economic growth is not reflected in the lives of the population.