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Rui Rocha (Il) talks to journalists
To reduce the “central role” of the state in the economy. Rui Tavares has already reacted to this ad from Rui Rocha.
A IL will present a project of constitutional revision To reduce the state’s “central role” in the economy, the party leader announced today, who said he has the votes of all the parties who review themselves in this view.
“IL will present a constitutional revision project in which we will bring to the discussion this view of society [mais livre, economicamente mais autónoma]. It is not an account adjustment with history, but it is the creation of a future opportunity for everyone, where everyone is revealed in a constitution that brings more freedom and has a smaller ideological pentens, ”announced Rui Rocha.
The IL leader spoke to journalists after an audience at the Belém Palace with the President of the Republic, which lasted about an hour.
Questioned about what changes that are made to the Constitution, Rui Rocha gave as an example “ issue of the role of the state, as a central in the economy”, Which he considered to be reflected in the fundamental law.
“It is something we understand that must be reviewed, but we will present our constitutional revision project. All parties did so. And therefore, there seems to have been a desire for constitutional revision at that time, ”he noted.
Rui Rocha reiterated that IL has this desire, so that the fundamental law will predict “a more open, freer”.
“We understand that it should not be an account adjustment with the story, but it should not be a conditioning for future generations that are conditioned by a certain moment of history. Therefore, we want to advance in this regard and move on in the coming days,” he said.
Interrogated with the Votes of the arrival To review the Constitution, Rui Rocha replied that the IL review project will be to “a more free, economically more autonomous society, in which the state role is not the central role of the economy”.
“Eu I want to count on all the votes that review themselves in this view”He said at a time when, after the legislatures, right -wing parties have the majority of two thirds of deputies necessary to review the fundamental law.
Rocha said There was no contact with AD and arrives About this purpose and claimed to have no “certain certainty” that the IL’s vision of society “is considered adequate by any of these parties,” in an allusion to André Ventura’s party, which he accused “defending a statist vision of Portugal.”
“Gasoline for the fire”
The spokesman for Book appealed to the PSD/CDS-PP coalition to reject a constitutional revision in this legislature in view of the new composition of the parliament.
“It would be very important that the prime minister, when being appointed, and that it will naturally be Luís Montenegro, gives ad, what of these signs that this legislature is not a legislature to make a constitutional revision“Rui Tavares considered, also after an audience with the President of the Republic.
Accompanied by the part of the Isabel Mendes Lopes party, and the elected deputies Jorge Pinto and Patrícia Gonçalves, Tavares appealed to Ad rejects An eventual constitutional revision, or “unless it says that it will never be in favor of any amendment to the Constitution that, instead of having two thirds, does not have a consensus that encompasses at least three rooms of the Assembly of the Republic, – that is, that, that conte also, at least, with the center-left ”.
The Free Leader criticized o ‘timing’ From this proposal compared to the new parliamentary composition, which has a substantial growth of the arrival.
“We already knew that the liberal initiative liked chainsaws, now we realized that he likes to send gasoline to the fire“He criticized.
The free manager stressed that this “It was not the subject of election campaign and, therefore, there is no legitimacy to review ”that, in his opinion,“ would constitute a regime change ”.
The Constitution was last revised in 2005. In 2022, the process of constitutional revision was not completed in the Assembly of the Republic, which was not completed with the fall of the government of António Costa.
