It is enough to ask the President of the Republic to veto the law on euthanasia

This Wednesday, Chega asked for an audience with the President of the Republic to ask Marcelo Rebelo de Souza to veto a law regulating the conditions under which medically assisted death is not punishable if it is approved in Parliament.

“Today, Chega informed the President of the Republic that he asked him to hold a hearing on this issue of euthanasia, seeking to bring to the attention of the President of the Republic issues that are a clear and flagrant violation of our constitutional order, as well as a violation of political rights, which took place in this process, as well as precisely in the hearings that Chega insistently demanded in accordance with the current legislation and which were rejected by the commission,” the chairman of the party said.

Andre Ventura wants to be received “urgently” at the Belém Palace to also ask the president “to impose a political veto on this law if the parties of the left realize that this law must be in place.”

“We want to bring this to the attention of the President of the Republic about how the process went, about the restrictive and restrictive way of political rights that happened here, so that the President has all the information on this issue,” he stressed. given that “Parliament is limited by the strength of the absolute majority that the PS has.”

Leader Chega addressed journalists at the Assembly of the Republic in Lisbon after the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees once again postponed the discussion and voting on the specialty of the euthanasia diploma.

The delay was requested by Chega following the distribution of a new version of the replacement text agreed by the parties that submitted proposals tonight.

After parliamentary leader Pedro Pinto gave the first reaction shortly after the commission’s decision, André Ventura again turned to journalists to say that the text “didn’t get better, it got worse” and justified his party’s request to postpone discussion and vote for euthanasia certificate because “there was no time to properly analyze it.”

“Especially knowing that there were doubts about constitutionality in the previous wording of this article,” he said, defending that “careful review by the Commission on Constitutional Affairs was required to avoid a new sieve of unconstitutionality of this article.” norm”.

The President and Deputy Chegi, who is not part of the 1st Commission, applauded the PS and the SDP for voting in favor of the delay, but accused the PS of not being “confident about how he is handling this process”, and doing so “haphazardly and correcting unconstitutionality after unconstitutionality”.

“Settlement of this process only introduced additional doubts and increased the number of questions,” he criticized.

And he considered that “the rush to bring this process to an end without serious legal work will lead to an inevitable rejection by the Constitutional Court”, arguing that “there are many unconstitutionalities in this text.”

Asked if the postponement, which the commission decided this Wednesday, was previously agreed with the PS, Andre Ventura replied that “there was no conversation” with the socialists and that “the only conversation” he had on this subject was with the leader of the PSD.

In the previous legislature, the decriminalization of violent death under certain conditions, amending the Penal Code, garnered an overwhelming majority in Parliament, but was subject to two vetoes by the President of the Republic: the first time since the Constitutional Court ruled, after requesting an inspection by Marcelo Rebelo de Souza , and for the second time the president rejected the diploma with a political veto.