Former social democratic minister Rui Gomes da Silva and constitutionalist Bacelar Gouveia will participate in the Chega parliamentary conference, which will take place on the 11th and 12th in Setúbal, dedicated to constitutional review.
Gomes da Silva was deputy minister in the government of Pedro Santana Lopes (2004 to 2005), vice president of Benfica in the first terms of office of Luís Filipe Vieira and sports commentator for the SIC, in addition to having been elected several times as a deputy for the PSD.
Jorge Bacelar Gouveia, a university professor specialized in constitutional matters, was a deputy in the XI Legislature, chosen by Faro, having almost always assumed positions close to the Social Democrats.
In a statement, Chega also confirmed the presence of the lawyer and television commentator António Pinto Pereira and the professor and member of the National Electoral Commission Fernando Silva.
Chega’s second parliamentary sessions in less than two months will be devoted “exclusively to the constitutional review process that he intends to open in September.”
Chega intends to begin the process of revising the fundamental law in the “first fortnight” of September, waiting for “contributions from all the other parties and civil society.”
The far-right parliamentary sessions coincide with those of the PS, which take place on the same days, in the district of Leiria.
At the beginning of the last conference, which took place at the beginning of July in Figueira da Foz (Coimbra), Ventura announced the intention to start a constitutional review process in September.
This process, he said on that occasion, will affect “what the system does not want”, namely, life imprisonment, one of the party’s flags expressed in a proposal several times for deliberation in parliament, but which was not debated as unconstitutional. .
The president of the far-right party said in recent days that he also intends to reduce the number of deputies and holders of political positions.
Amendments to the Constitution require the vote of two thirds of the Assembly of the Republic to be approved. However, as the last regular review took place more than five years ago, submission by a review party automatically opens the process.
Rui Rio’s PSD had a constitutional review project that was not delivered to parliament due to the party’s succession process. The PS, for its part, has already admitted that it has no desire to carry out any profound revision of the basic law.
PS organizes parliamentary sessions between September 11 and 13 in Leiria
Source: Observadora
