Isabelle Moreira argues that “comfortable conditions” are being created for the passage of the law.

Socialist MP Isabel Moreira believes that this Wednesday created “comfortable conditions” for the President of the Republic to promulgate a new death certificate with the help of a doctor, which will be voted on Friday.

“We believe that the last doubt of the Constitutional Court, which arose from the union “and”, [e] once the doubts expressed by the various judge-counselors in their ballot statements regarding the subsidiarity of euthanasia have been resolved, favorable conditions have been created for disclosure by His Excellency the President of the Republic,” reads a statement from a deputy sent to the Luz agency.

Isabelle Moreira’s reaction comes after a new text on the subject was delivered to Parliament this Wednesday, which establishes that medically assisted death can only occur by euthanasia if assisted suicide is not possible due to the patient’s physical disability. It was a new clause added to the law.

A constitutionalist who has followed the process emphasizes that “From the cross-reading of the verdict and the voting statements, it seems quite plausible that if the outright non-consecration of the subsidiarity of euthanasia in relation to medically assisted suicide was called into question, and unequivocally, the current composition of the TC would declare unconstitutionality the aforementioned non-subsidiarity”.

In this context, the deputy continues, it makes sense to “foresee an implicit requirement in the decision”.

“The court understood that the expression ‘physical, psychological and spiritual suffering’ does not clarify whether we are facing a situation of alternative or cumulation. Physical suffering should not be confused with physical pain, but we must comply with the TC,” he said. said, referring to one of the arguments that prompted the court to reject the latest decree.

In response to such a position of the Ratton Palace judges, the deputies preferred “to return to the concept of suffering without adjectives, already legalized by the Labor Code.”

“Most of the judges ruled in favor of death with the help of a doctor, and some even realized that the current legislation is unconstitutional and defended the fundamental right to die at will,” he stressed.

The MP added that in this way Portugal is closer to the Constitutional Courts of Italy, Austria, Colombia and the Supreme Court of Canada.

The diploma on euthanasia will be considered by the deputies on Friday.

The Assembly of the Republic will have to approve for the fourth time the law on death from medical care, a matter that has already been stopped twice by the TC, and once again by a political veto of the President of the Republic.

At the end of January, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional some of the provisions of a decree designed to regulate death in the provision of medical care, in response to a request from the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza, for a preventive check.