“Multi-force” police and changes in schools. Montenegro’s 7 measures
Montenegro’s speech marked the closing of the 42nd PSD Congress.
PSD leader, Luís Montenegro, left a “special word” in the closing speech of the 42nd PSD Congress to the CDS and PPM, “loyal traveling partners of the democratic coalition”.
“Multi-force teams” to fight “illegal immigration” “without respite”
Luís Montenegro took advantage of his speech to announce some of the next seven measures that will be implemented by the Government. In terms of security, he revealed that “multi-force teams” will be created to combat “illegal immigration” “without respite”.
“We will reinforce the proximity and visibility of the police on the streets and increase video surveillance systems. We will create multi-force teams that will include the Judicial Police, Public Security Police, National Republican Guard, Food and Economic Security Authority, Authority for Working Conditions and Tax Authority under the coordination of the internal security system to go into the field to combat, without respite, drug trafficking, human trafficking and abuse and illegal immigration”, announced Montenegro.
The Prime Minister also revealed that the Executive will sign, “this week”, a “historic water agreement” with Spain.
“We will guarantee minimum daily flows in the Tagus River, payment for water from Alqueva and its use by Spanish farmers,” said Montenegro.
Increased support for victims of domestic violence
The Government will also increase support for victims of domestic violence, “an inexcusable crime”.
“We will double the amount of support for the empowerment of victims of this crime: we will invest an additional 25 million euros in tele-assistance and transportation tools for victims and we will ensure that women who are welcomed into shelters outside their area of residence will have immediate access to health care in the host locations,” he said.
New association contracts with the private sector for preschool
For Lisbon, Montenegro announced a ” major rehabilitation project for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area ” to unite the two banks of the capital. The “riverside arch” will be rehabilitated and will be renamed Parque Humberto Delgado.
In Education, the Government plans to “expand the public, private and social offer”, testing new association contracts in pre-school education, looking at the “interest of children and not any ideological blockage”.
The primary and secondary education programs will also be reviewed. A review that will include the subject of Citizenship, where the “cultivation of constitutional values” will be reinforced to free “the subject from the constraints of ideological or factional projects”.
Hospital medicines in pharmacies and reception centers for immigrants
Finally, Montenegro also announced that the Government will give “around 150 thousand patients” the possibility of receiving their medicines at the pharmacy closest to their home, so that they do not have to travel hundreds of kilometres to the hospital to pick them up.
Focusing again on immigration, he mentioned the construction of “two temporary installation centers in Lisbon and Porto” to “accommodate cases of illegal or irregular immigration”, while at the same time launching “a program to attract talent abroad” for Portuguese companies and higher education institutions.
In closing, the Prime Minister cited figures from Portuguese history such as King Dom Afonso Henriques, Vasco da Gama and Luiz de Camões to promise a Government with a spirit of conquest , innovation and discovery and expressed his conviction that “the streets” have given him “encouragement and confidence”.