The Secretary-General of the CFP today held the Prime Minister responsible for the problems encountered in the national examinations, which he considered unresolved, and stated that the Minister of Education revealed lack of courage and verticality in the face of “the scolding”.
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Paulo Raimundo spoke at the end of a summer party promoted by the PCP in Beja, in a speech about 25 minutes focused on criticism of the action of the PSD/CDS government, which he mainly associated with the Aquis and the Liberal Initiative.
In the matter of national examinations, the secretary-general of the CFP argued that many things are unresolved” and estimated the existence of “thousands of students” still with suspended grades.
Faced with this situation, Paulo Raimundo said that the Minister of Education, Fernando Alexandre, on Friday, in the Assembly of the Republic, in a debate promoted by the CFP, “he managed to be 40 minutes without saying anything and, when he opened his mouth, he said nothing”.
“I didn’t say because he couldn’t justify the unjustifiable and the only thing he could have said was to say sorry. But even that lacked courage. He even lacked what is the verticality of his responsibility,” he advocated.
From the perspective of the Secretary-General of the CFP, at the origin of the problem encountered in the national examinations, is the government’s policy of “dismantling the state”. He mentioned that in the Ministry of Education more than 500 professionals were discharged, which “disorganized the entire structure – and the results are in sight”.
” The most visible expression we have at the moment is exactly all this scolding, all this mess, with consequences on the lives of thousands of students and thousands of families,” he said, before attacking the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro.
” Whatever opinions we may have about arrogance, about a navel too big, about the idea that only he [Fernando Alexandre] is that he marches well, the truth is that the responsibility is not only his. The responsibility lies with the entire government and the Prime Minister, who had the courage to say – and I am glad to say – that he was with the Minister of Education”, the Communist leader said.
Also according to Paulo Raimundo, Luís Montenegro stood by the Minister of Education when he “came back to accuse the teachers, the school directors for his responsibility”.
“If the Prime Minister stood by the Minister of Education, then if he were a man of courage, a man of his word, a politician with responsibilities, then he would assume all the responsibilities arising from the created situation,” he said.
The Secretary-General of the CFP also left a warning about what could happen soon because of national examinations: “Let’s see if there’s courage or we’ll see who’s first to fall into this whole story.”