Mariana Mortágua announced that the BE will submit to parliament a draft resolution to combat "open-pit mining projects" in Portugal, which "are essentially lithium mines that have been imposed on the population, without listening to the population, against the interests of the population".

This was a commitment made by the BE in the electoral campaign for the early legislative elections of 10 March, she stressed.

The BE coordinator argued that these mines "have enormous environmental risks, enormous risks to public health and without any guarantee of economic gains or gains for a fairer climate transition", admitting that "they are nothing more than a deal to exploit structural funds".

"The future of the climate transition in Portugal does not lie in lithium, and that is why we are going to present a project, corresponding to the promise we made to the people of Boticas or Serra da Argemela, to stop these open-pit lithium mines", she said.

Mariana Mortágua pointed to the floods in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul as a warning "for the urgency of having an environmental policy" in the face of "the destructive potential of climate change".

Next, the BE's leading candidate in the European elections, Catarina Martins, presented a set of proposals for a fair climate transition within the framework of the European Union, considering that "this is the European mandate in which something is done, or it is too late".

"We have very little time to do a lot. If there is a policy that is clearly a policy in which European coordination is fundamental, it is the climate issue. If there is a policy in which Portugal can discuss on an equal footing at European level, it is also on the climate issue. We have made progress in renewable energies, but we have not made the climate transition and we are not making a fair transition. But let's use our experience to have investments in the fundamental sectors", she defended.

Ending subsidies for fossil fuels, investing in decentralised solar energy, changing budget rules to allow public financing for the energy transition, supporting the development of renewable energy communities with European funds and allowing them to participate in public tenders and energy auctions were some of the measures presented.

Other priorities for the BE are increasing public transport, with increasing free of charge, new rules for water use and restricting super-intensive agriculture and golf tourism.

The former BE coordinator insisted that it is urgently necessary to "change policies" within the European framework to mitigate the effects of climate change, otherwise "life becomes unsustainable".

Asked about what a good result in the European elections of 09 June would be for the BE, Catarina Martins replied: "A good result is to have strength in the European Parliament, it is to have the greatest number of votes that the voters place in us with confidence".

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