The PS parliamentary leader expressed hope this Wednesday that it would be possible, by tomorrow, to present a joint list to external bodies and sent a decision on a possible constitutional review to the party leadership.
Speaking to journalists at the Assembly of the Republic, Eurico Brilhante Dias was asked whether he expects that a joint list could be presented for external bodies this Wednesday and whether the PS will be part of it.
“I’m hopeful, between today and tomorrow, that we can do this, naturally. It’s often said that even when washing the baskets it’s harvest, we continue harvesting”, he responded.
Regarding the constitutional review process that Chega announced on Tuesday that it wants to launch this month, the PS parliamentary leader sent the decision to the party bodies on whether the socialists will participate with proposals.
“This will be a decision of the bodies of the Socialist Party. The Parliamentary Group, as a body of the Socialist Party, will respect whatever the decision of the Party’s bodies is, naturally”, he indicated.
Eurico Brilhante Dias considered that “it is not surprising” that “a party that is against the constitutional system, against the democratic system”, wants to change the Constitution of the Republic and said that what matters “is the content”.
“We will evaluate the content, I remember that approximately three years ago we had a constitutional review process started, also once again on the initiative of this far-right party”, he said, indicating that the PS “will naturally be present and with a seat” in the eventual constitutional review commission that will have to be constituted when the process begins.
“Loss of nationality is not compatible with the Portuguese constitutional legal order”
Also asked about the nationality law, which will be reviewed this Wednesday by parliament, the socialist deputy warned that the sanction of loss of nationality following conviction for certain crimes, which PSD, CDS-PP and Chega will try to introduce again into the law, is unconstitutional and reiterated that socialists will vote against this proposal.
“We will make a global assessment of the two decrees, and in one of them we have already announced that we will vote against, because we clearly continue to consider that the loss of nationality is not compatible with the Portuguese constitutional legal order, because it does not distinguish original nationality from another, and therefore it is clearly, in our reading, little or not at all in line with the Constitution. We’ll see what the final formulation is,” said Eurico Brilhante Dias.
The PS parliamentary leader also said that he would like to see his party’s proposals approved and justified that some “are necessary, because evidently the two decrees were unconstitutional”, and others are political in nature, because “some of the measures that the Government approved with Chega are unfair, some of them unjustifiably unfair”.
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