Cavaco accuses “political agents” to hide good news for … – Daily News – Lisbon

The President took the fourth Writing journey to a Dynamic Economy, we visited during the day companies and industry associations in the textile cluster Famalicão and Barcelos, to criticize “those politicians who want to hide the good news that have emerged in relation to Portuguese and European economy. “

” Two weeks ago, in Paris, the Secretary-General Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said the Portuguese economy may grow two percent in 2015, but unfortunately these words were received in Portugal with an incomprehensible nuisance by some politicians, “said Cavaco Silva in the discourse of the commemorative session of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Textile and Clothing Industries of Portugal, in Famalicão, it was received by the protest of about fifty workers and trade unionists in protest against the cut of the rights and reduce wages.

The president’s words may be understood as an indirect to the Socialist Party, who expressed some discomfort with the fact that the President has endorsed the meeting with the secretary general of the OECD, Angel Gurría, a forecast of more optimistic economic growth that the government, justified in part by the depreciation of the euro and lower oil prices .

Cavaco Silva avoided to comment directly on the case of VIP contributors list or parliamentary hearings on the BES case, so along the way today has not proceeded to questions by journalists. The part of the president was only a veiled reference to cases, a supplement to the speech prior written: “The politicians should focus its attention on the fight against unemployment and poverty and not in intrigue or political party polemics that do not create a single employment “

In his speech this afternoon, in CITEVE. – Technological Centre for the Textile and Clothing Industries, the President highlighted the 8 percent growth in 2014 in an industry that already accounts for 10 percent of export national goods and employing 120,000 workers in seven thousand companies, whereas the textile, whose production is exported by 80 percent, “made an important contribution to make 2014 a turning point in the evolution of the Portuguese economy.”