António Cotrim / Lusa
With a majority of two -right -wing, the way for a constitutional revision is open. Since the introduction of private health or easier to use constitutional, there are some of the proposals already known to the parties.
With the, a new constitutional revision process will even start in the next legislature, scheduled to start in June. With AD and even express availability to participate, the real possibility of Changes to the Constitutionthanks to the current majority of two thirds on the right in Parliament.
The PS, however, has already appealed to the process involving all political forces. AD guarantees that it is Available to dialogue with all The parties, in an attempt to build wider consensus and possibly include the socialists in the process as a currency of exchange for the viability of their government.
This new process will begin from scratch, after the previous one – started in 2022 at the initiative of the arrival – was interrupted with the fall of the government of António Costa in November 2023. For 11 months, the eventual committee for constitutional revision brought together proposals from all partiesbut the process was suspended without conclusive votes.
In the previous revision, PS and PSD came to punctual agreements, namely about the introduction of legal mechanisms to respond to sanitary emergenciessuch as the isolation of patients without the need for a state of emergency, and about the use of metadata by security forces in crimes investigations.
There was also general consensus among all parties regarding the inclusion of animal rights in the Constitution. However, some changes defended by the PSD, such as the sole mandate to the President of the Republic or the vote at 16no longer had the support of the PS, recalls the.
More radical proposals of arrival, such as the Introduction of life imprisonChemical castration to pedophiles or profound changes in the penal system were rejected by most parties. IL’s proposal to introduce a national compensation circle to do not get the support of the PS and PSD.
Where the right parties converge
What are the proposals that bring together the greatest right -wing consensus and are more likely to approve?
A Change in the preamble of the Constitution It brings together the support of both the arrival and IL, which want to remove the phrase “Way to a socialist society.”
There is also widespread support to the PSD proposal to introduce the “complementarity with private and social services“In the article on access to health. Arrives argues that” the only way “of serving users in full” is to reference them to the first available response “, without excluding the private. The proposal of IL also refers to the” adoption of a health system that is not sought with the National Health Service, but that integrates other private health services “.
Another matter that should gather consensus is a greater ease in appeals to the Constitutional Court. A 2022 PSD proposal defends “legislative consecration of the constitutional complaint, or constitutional support, against legal decisions violating rights, freedoms and guarantees”.
Also in 2022, the arrival recalled that this measure had already been proposed by other parties and that it is a “Citizens Defense Tool“. Liberals also agree and advocate the reinforcement of the powers of the constitutional judges to” prevent or interrupt continued violation “of fundamental rights.
