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Portugal: Deadly forest fires

Bloco de Esquerda — 2024-09-23T08:03:36Z

Seven people have died and 118 have been injured in the fires that have been raging since September 15 in the north and centre of the country. In just three days, 2024 has become the year with the fourth-largest area burned in the last decade.

- IV596-September 2024 / Portugal

Bloco promises to be “the most combative opposition to the right”

Bloco de Esquerda — 2024-03-11T22:44:58Z

In her election night statement, Mariana Mortágua emphasized that despite the turn to the right in the electoral results, the Bloco managed to resist, maintaining its mandates and with more votes than in 2022.

- News from around the world / Portugal

Presidential elections marked by the pandemic crisis and the aggressiveness of the ultraright

Bloco de Esquerda — 2021-02-03T07:08:47Z

Political resolution adopted by the National Committee of the Left Bloc on 30 January 2021.

- IV553 - February 2021 / Portugal

2021 Portuguese State Budget: Bloco de Esquerda will vote against the document

Bloco de Esquerda — 2020-11-11T08:28:30Z

Catarina Martins, Bloco de Esquerda's Coordinator, said that Bloco de Esquerda has defined four priorities in response to the crisis in the 2021 State Budget's debate, which have not been accommodated by the Socialist Party Government.

- IV550 - November 2020 / Portugal

Government proceeds with the automatic regularisation of migrants and refugees with pending residency applications

Bloco de Esquerda — 2020-04-04T11:00:45Z

This measure results in a temporary residence permit and avoids crowding of the public at the SEF (Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras – Immigration and Borders Service) during the pandemic. Beatriz Dias, Bloco's MP, welcomes the decision that guarantees access to social benefits for many "migrant people who work and contribute to social security revenues".

- IV543 - April 2020 / Portugal, Migration, Covid-19 Pandemic

Political resolution of the national leadership of the Left Bloc

Bloco de Esquerda — 2015-11-03T18:29:52Z

This resolution was adopted unanimously by the National Leadership of the Left Bloc in Lisbon on October 18, 2015 following the elections on Sunday 4 October
These elections gave a parliamentary majority to parties defining themselves as on the left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Left Bloc. Since then while these parties have been discussing the possibilites of an agreement to allow a government expressing this parliamentary majority to be formed, the Portuguese president has declared that it is would be impossible to allow parties that do not accept the EU rules to be close to the government in Portugal, and has invited the rightwing coalition which has the biggest single group of MPs to form a government.

The fate of this government will be decided in a vote of confidence on 10 November.

- IV490 - November 2015 / Portugal, New parties of the left

Democracy against financial colonialism

Bloco de Esquerda — 2015-07-29T18:11:36Z

This is the resolution of the national board of the Portuguese Left Bloc agreed on July 26 2015.

- IV486 - July 2015 / Greece, Portugal, European Union

Against the unacceptable burden of the debt, the condition of democracy is social struggle

Bloco de Esquerda — 2011-12-13T17:59:46Z

On Saturday December 3, the National Bureau of the Bloco approved a resolution which took a balance sheet of the general strike and the Portuguese social and political situation, addressed the issue of the European Summit and European questions of urgency and dealt in more detail with the issue of debt.

- IV443 - December 2011 / Portugal, Debt

The IMF-EFSF and the answer from the Left

Bloco de Esquerda — 2011-04-19T05:45:50Z

As Portugal heads for a general election called as a result of Prime Minister José Sócrates calling in the international financial institutions, the Left Block makes clear its alternative to the crisis.

- IV435 - April 2011

Precarious generation on the march

Bloco de Esquerda — 2011-03-13T10:48:52Z

On Saturday 12 March 2011, shouting "With casualised jobs there can be no freedom!" 200,000 people gathered in Lisbon and 80, 000 in Porto. The protests marked an extraordinary mobilisation that spread to all 11 other cities across the country, and even to other European countries.

- IV434 - March 2011