The President of the Republic promised this Thursday an “immediate promulgation” of the new legal regime for foreigners in Portugal, which had an “overwhelming majority voting in favor” in Parliament, considering that “it makes no sense to dramatize the issue of migration”. .
At the joint press conference in the framework of the first official visit of the President of Cape Verde to Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that he hopes that the decree of the Assembly of the Republic on the new immigration law reaches the Belém Palace or friday or early next week.
I will certainly promulgate it before the middle of August. It will be enacted immediately. I have no doubt, there was no vote against in parliament and there was an overwhelming majority voting for it, it represents a national consensus”, he promised.
The Assembly of the Republic approved a week ago, on July 21, in a global final vote, the new legal regime for foreigners in Portugal, with PS, PCP, BE and Livre voting in favor, PSD, IL and PAN abstaining. , and absence of Sufficient.
During a reprimand, deputies from Chega leave the chamber and let Santos Silva speak alone
According to the President of the Republic, the diploma “will enter into force immediately and provides for a new regime, namely, to work visas and student visas”, two cases that “are chronically identified as more complicated for people’s lives.”
We are making an effort at the same time to make the visa processing mechanism more flexible and bureaucratic,” he said.
The goal, according to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, “is to set in motion as soon as possible the mechanism that was a joint idea of Cape Verde and Portugal” when the “brothers of the CPLP still had reservations.”
faster better because it represents recognizing a merit of the past, which we owe to the Cape Verdeans in Portugal and we are convinced that Cape Verde also owes the Portuguese in Cape Verde, which has no measure”, he defended.
The head of state considered that “with this mini-revolution” the aim is “to narrow the spirit of the CPLP, but to take further what was started to be done in conditions that were not as favorable as those that are now being created.”
The concern is obvious: it is to take what is a community further, not just a community between heads of state, prime ministers, the foreign minister, government officials, even local authorities and civil society institutions, but a community built all. about people and we know, from very old experience, how it makes no sense to dramatize the issue of migration because we practice it, in both directions, day after day, enriching our societies”, he defended.
Source: Observadora
