Portuguese Military Will Side With Rioters

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   Military admit harden manifestations of discontent and has scored a national meeting to October 22.

The
 National Association of Sergeants (ANS) today reacted to the new 
austerity measures announced yesterday by the Government and that will 
be part of the State Budget for 2012.

The economy, President of the NSA says that "long ago" that the military is "to prepare a series of initiatives." And "if there was any doubt in the minds of gullible, claims Passos Coelho lay down any doubt."

Antonio
 Coelho Lima recalled that "months ago, in opposition, Passos Coelho 
said Socrates, prime minister at the time, to cut subsidies was 
nonsense," adding: "We have to have memory, we can not remain dormant in
 well spoken conversations. "

So in the next 22 days, officers, sergeants and soldiers will hold a national meeting. "And
 this is not a meeting that ends in itself, as can be found other ways, 
whether to demonstrate whether they are unwell to reiterate the 
availability to those in power to find solutions to all parties," Antonio Lima Coelho notes.

And
 that, according to the official, the new austerity measures announced 
yesterday by Passos Coelho, "undermine the constitutional rights of 
sovereignty and even" the country, where "the cutting of subsidies is an
 aggravation of a situation that was already very difficult ".

"Revolutions do not announce"

Antonio
 Lima Coelho admits that "for ordinary people is very difficult to fail 
to meet their commitments, but to a soldier who is obliged to comply 
with the laws of the Republic is much more serious."

The
 military thus ensure that "serve the Portuguese people and not private 
institutions," and warns, "Let no one dare to think that the armed 
forces can be used in the repression of social upheaval that these 
measures may cause."

Asked
 about a possible hardening of the protests by the military, the 
Association adds that "revolutions do not announce themselves when they 
come, they come because they have arrived, but I hope the good of the 
rule of law ever such a scenario will be put "he concludes.

Recall
 that last month Passos Coelho was keen to stress in the speech he chose
 for the closing session of the Party of the People in Campo Maior, that
 "in Portugal, there are right to protest, no right to strike. These are
 rights that are enshrined in the Constitution and who have earned widespread consensus in Portugal. "

However,
 at the time warned the prime minister, "those who think they can shake 
things up in order to turn the period we are living in a war with the 
government," when there is "a war against the delay, the debt and waste, "they" know what we know to talk, but we also know to decide. "
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