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Was railway liberalisation a failure? The PCP says yes and wrote a book

Público31 August 2026 at 15:08

The PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) considers that railway liberalization was a failure and expressed this position through a dossier recently presented. The document is titled "Disaster on the Railway: 35 years of liberalization" and aims to make a critical assessment of three and a half decades of opening the sector to competition.

This episode features the participation of the PCP's general secretary, Paulo Raimundo, who reinforces the party's position against the liberalization of the railway sector. Alongside him, Manuel Gouveia speaks, identified as one of the dossier's authors.

The dossier presents an in-depth analysis of the railway situation in Portugal since the beginning of the liberalization process, approximately 35 years ago. The document's title, which includes the word "disaster," reflects the PCP's negative perspective on the results of this policy.

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