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07-06-2011, 03:30 PM
Economist and politician Haivanjoe NG Cortinas said on Tuesday that the nationwide strike that has been called for next Monday, 11 July, as well as not helping the poorest sectors of society, will also cost the nation a billion pesos a day, affecting the GDP and making the current economic contraction even worse.
NG Cortinas, a member of the PLD Central Committee, stressed that although the workers have a legitimate right to strike, when the demonstrations seek to obtain fair and rational goals, the participation of political parties pollutes the environment and makes the strike unfair under the current national and international conditions. He said that since the Constitution guarantees free enterprise, the government is not allowed to set prices except through economic policies designed to provide stability such as those followed by the administration. In a thinly veiled reference to the PRD, NG Cortinas told reporters from El Nuevo Diario that any discourse that does not follow these principles is just election time demagoguery and that instead of helping the poor it was just making things worse.
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NG Cortinas, a member of the PLD Central Committee, stressed that although the workers have a legitimate right to strike, when the demonstrations seek to obtain fair and rational goals, the participation of political parties pollutes the environment and makes the strike unfair under the current national and international conditions. He said that since the Constitution guarantees free enterprise, the government is not allowed to set prices except through economic policies designed to provide stability such as those followed by the administration. In a thinly veiled reference to the PRD, NG Cortinas told reporters from El Nuevo Diario that any discourse that does not follow these principles is just election time demagoguery and that instead of helping the poor it was just making things worse.
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