SDP calls for referendum on decriminalization of euthanasia

On Monday, the SDP president announced that the Social Democratic parliamentary group would submit a draft resolution calling for a referendum on the decriminalization of euthanasia.

This was stated by Luis Montenegro at the end of the meeting of the permanent commission of the party.

“We expect that the Assembly of the Republic will leave the final decision after the decision on the referendum,” he explained.
He clarified that PSD’s intention is that the vote on the draft could be put to a vote “immediately”, meaning it could coincide with the final global vote on the final text, which intends to decriminalize medically assisted death, to be held next Friday.

“Either our draft is approved and the rest of the current legislative process is suspended, or it is not approved and we will have to follow the rules of procedure and have the vote that most of the political parties represented in parliament want today. “, he said.

Luis Montenegro has already put forward a question that will appear in the draft that the party will present this Monday in Parliament.

“I agree that medically assisted death is not punishable when it is carried out or is carried out with the help of medical professionals at the decision of an elderly person, whose will is current and repeatedly confirmed, serious, free and clear, in a situation of great suffering, with final damage extreme severity or a serious and incurable disease?” read Luis Montenegro.

When asked why he had been waiting until now to submit this proposal, the PSD chairman replied that it was only now clear which final text would be put to a vote in parliament.

“The question put in the referendum should have a goal: to meet the expectations that we have in the PSD regarding the design of the final text, which is discussed in the first commission of the Assembly of the Republic,” Montenegro justified.