This Thursday, dozens of protesters gathered outside the hotel where the PSD will hold its National Council to protest revision drafts that change the Constitution on health and metadata issues.
The protesters were controlled by some kind of police, and they held signs saying “Who sleeps in a democracy, sleeps in a dictatorship” or “Care for democracy is care for everyone.”
The president of one of the platforms that promoted concentration, Citizenship XXI, explained to Luce that the goal of the protest would be to bring his manifesto to SDP President Luis Montenegro, and then to Parliament.
This “concentration in defense of the constitution”, as António Nogueira explained, rebels against the possibility that was broadcast in the media that the PSD and PS could include measures in the Basic Law that allow imprisonment in the event of a medical emergency and facilitate access to message metadata.
The protesters say they intend to travel from the Marquis area to Largo do Rato, where the PS is also holding a meeting of its National Political Commission this Thursday evening to discuss its project to revise the Constitution.
PSD has not yet published the articles of its draft constitutional revision, but only a summary of measures that do not address these two topics.
Among other proposals, the PSD will propose in its draft constitutional revision a single seven-year term for the President of the Republic, set the maximum number of deputies at 215 and the minimum number of deputies at 181, always an odd number, and reduce the age of the testator to vote from 18 to 16 years.
Chega opened the constitutional review process by submitting a draft constitutional review to parliament, which was adopted on 12 October. According to the Constitution of the Republic, “when a draft constitutional revision is submitted, any others must be submitted within thirty days”, with this period ending on Friday.
In addition to Chega and the SDP, the PS, the Liberal Initiative and the PAN have already announced that they will submit projects to amend the Basic Law.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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