Strong mobilization. The CGTP was hoping that 200,000 people would mobilize and said that 300,000 did after the gathering, although several independent analysts object to this figure. The national demonstration – 400 buses were chartered to bring the demonstrators from the provinces to Lisbon – followed the announcement of severity measures affecting the entire population which are considered as a “fiscal shock” (see our dispatch No. 100389). The strike calls in the procession were essentially against the crisis and severity measures, and against center political alliances (socialists+social democratic party).
e considered as a “fiscal shock” (see our dispatch No. 100389). The strike calls in the procession were essentially against the crisis and severity measures, and against center political alliances (socialists+social democratic party).
Union conflict. The UGT, close to the socialist party, didn’t call for a strike because it didn’t want to be associated with anti-government slogans. The UGT also distanced itself from the possibility of a general strike. Its leader, João Proença, thinks that the c
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