Marcelo hopes to resume talks with firefighters in 2025 to review the statute

 

The President of the Republic stated today that he hopes to resume talks between the Government and representatives of professional firefighters in 2025 to review their status, which in his opinion is outdated.

“It’s been 22 years, it’s a long time. Therefore, I hope that there will be an opportunity, next year, to resume talks to modify a statute that is quite outdated”, declared Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in response to questions from journalists, in a hotel in Amsterdam, where he is on a state visit.

On this occasion, the Head of State once again separated “the content of the demonstrations” by firefighters, in relation to which he stressed that he had already expressed reservations, and “the justice of having gone 22 years without a review of the statute”.

According to the President of the Republic, this is the result of a “ping-pong that exists between the Government and the Assembly, between the Government and local authorities, between local authorities and the Government and the Assembly”, and the matter must be resolved.