The conference of parliamentary leaders confirmed today that the Government’s proposal to change the regime for the entry of foreigners will be voted on in general, specialty and general final in the last plenary session before the holidays.
The confirmation was transmitted to Lusa by the spokeswoman for the conference of leaders, PS deputy Maria da Luz Rosinha.
The meeting of this body was scheduled after, on Wednesday in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (in the part that took place behind closed doors), the the opposition questioned the intention of the PS approve this diploma “in a hurry” in successive votes in general, specialty and global final, in the same plenary session,
PCP and Bloco de Esquerda were not present in this discussion in the commission, but, like PSD and Chega, the communist parliamentary leader Paula Santos, in the last meeting of the conference of leaders, spoke out against an accelerated legislative procedure of a bill that modifies more than 40 articles.
A source from the PCP caucus told Lusa that the party exposed again this Thursday at the leaders’ conference the same reservations, but that the decision to maintain the three votes for the 21st was made by consensus.
At Wednesday’s Commission meeting, by the PSD, in addition to expanding the changes presented in the Government diploma, the sensitivity of a change in the visa flexibility policy is highlighted for entry into national territory, at a time when doubts are raised about the future of the agents of the Immigration and Border Service (SEF).
For her part, the PAN deputy, Inês Sousa Real, stated that she had proposed reforms to present in the specialty and therefore spoke out against the possibility of opening and closing this legislative process in parliament in one day.
Given the difference in positions between the PS and the other opposition forces, the Constitutional Affairs Committee forwarded the analysis and possible decision on this agenda to the conference of leaders to allow the vote on the Government diploma in general, in the specialty and final . global on the same day, confirmed today.
In the Government’s proposal that modifies the legal regime for the entry, stay, exit and departure of foreigners from the national territory, among other aspects, it is determined that the granting of residence and temporary stay visas to nationals of a State in the The Agreement of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) does not depend on the prior opinion of the SEF, “without prejudice to the granting of visas being communicated to the SEF, for the purposes of exercising its competences in matters of internal security.
A change that, according to the executive, results from the mobility agreement signed by all the member states of the CPLP at the last summit of heads of state of the organization, in July last year, in Luanda.
With this diploma, the Government also intends to establish “procedures to attract regulated and integrated immigration for the development of the country, change the way in which the public administration relates to immigrants and guarantee conditions for the integration of immigrants.
To this end, the Government wants to move forward with the creation of a title of limited duration that allows the legal entry of immigrants in Portugal with the aim of looking for work, simplifying procedures and opening the possibility of temporary stay or residence visas” also have as their object the provision of remote work, as well as the accompaniment of family members enabled with the respective titles.
“This bill eliminates the existence of a global contingent of employment opportunities to be established by the Council of Ministers, in order to grant a visa to obtain a residence permit for the exercise of a subordinate professional activity”, is added in the explanatory statement of the diploma.
Source: Observadora
