The Minister of Internal Administration insisted this Thursday, January 25th, that, for now, it is impossible to respond to what is being demanded by the security forces and announced that the PS wants to meet with the union structures on the 29th.
«What was stated by the Government is that, in management, we did not have the conditions to be able to respond to the level of what is being demanded», said José Luís Carneiro, speaking to journalists on the sidelines of an information meeting of European Union ministers (EU) with the Internal Administration portfolio, in Brussels.
The government official added that he has "all respect" for the approximately 15 thousand members of the PSP and GNR who demonstrated in Lisbon on Wednesday, demanding better salary conditions and the equalization of the risk subsidy for the Judiciary Police.
"The right to demonstrate is a constitutionally enshrined right", he commented, adding that over the last eight years, during the governments of socialist António Costa, it was possible to "value, dignify police activity" and that "it is work that must continue and, if possible, be reinforced».
Asked about the Prime Minister's refusal to receive the union structures, José Luís Carneiro did not respond to the question, but added that the PS, the only party that had not yet responded to the request for a meeting with the police union structures, had already asked for a meeting.
«The information I have, which is public, was that contact had been made with the [union] platform so that they could meet on the 29th of this month [January]. Now it is within the framework of electoral programs that political parties, if they so choose, must make commitments that are compatible with the State's budgetary possibilities", he said.
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