Blok de Esquerda says TC’s interpretation is “a bit surprising”.

BE leader José Manuel Purez on Monday found the Constitutional Court’s decision on the euthanasia law “a little baffling” but leaves room for a “small problem” that Parliament could easily fix.

“Honestly, I think the Constitutional Court’s interpretation is somewhat surprising, since the law spells out three characteristics of suffering with the word ‘and’ in this regard,” he said.

Speaking to reporters earlier this Monday evening in Coimbra, the former BE MP said the blockers would have to scrutinize the TC decision as only what was revealed in the communiqué was known, but he said he thought the place for “a small matter which is “easily corrected by Parliament”.

The President of the Republic vetoed as unconstitutional a parliamentary decree decriminalizing death in healthcare, as required by the Constitution, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court.

The decision was announced through a note on the official website of the President of the Republic on the Internet after the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional some of the norms of this diploma, submitted for preventive verification by the head of state Marcelo Rebelo de Souza.

This was the third decree passed in Parliament on euthanasia and the second time that a head of state had requested a preventive check on the matter on 4 January.

According to José Manuel Puresa, the TC decided by a “very narrow majority” of “seven judges to six” on “one of the several points regarding the definitions that are now in the law in this version. “.

“The fact that the Constitutional Court ruled only on the aspect provided for in paragraph of Article [relativamente ao sofrimento], shows, in my opinion, that the Constitutional Court recognizes that this is a law endowed with all the conditions and in need of this small revision. This will be done, and the law will come into force when it should come into force,” he concluded.