In the sense of unconstitutionality, Mariana Mortágua (Left Block), Paula Santos (PCP), Inês de Sousa Real (Pan) and Paulo Muacho (free) were pronounced.
The parties of the parliamentary left accused the government on Friday to present a With unconstitutional points, to want to create an artificial problem and not be based on objective data.
These positions were contradicted by interventions from the right -wing political right that held socialist executives by introducing “facilitism” – or in the specific case of the arrival of “bulk sale” and “bandalheira” – in the granting of nationality by naturalization.
In the debate on the proposal of the Government of Revision of the Nationality Law, in general, the most forceful intervention came from the leader of the socialist bench Pedro Delgado Alves.
“The loss of the government proposed by the government is disproportionate. Creates two categories of citizens: one who are the kind of experimental period and others who have all rights.”
Also according to the “vice” of the parliamentary group of the PS, the government’s diploma violates the Constitution regarding “retroactivity”, since “people who already gather the requirements to request nationality and would no longer be able to do so, which violates the principle of confidence protection.”
Pedro Delgado Alves also pointed out a “disproportionality of deadlines” inherent in the diploma of the executive and said that “a violation of conventional obligations of the Portuguese State could be before” the European convention of nationality states that they should not discriminate against the origin of people in the terms for the acquisition of nationality. “
He then left a warning to the government: “Do not present a proposal that violates the Constitution, strive to do better, and surely do not go after those who want to end the Republic” – here, alluding to the arrival.
In turn, the coordinator of the Left Bloc spoke in the government’s “cruelty” in relation to children born in Portugal, who have never known any other country, but may be without access to Portuguese nationality.
“They call this integration? Attacking the children that those who came to Portugal work is inhuman,” said Mariana Mortágua. The PCP parliamentary leader considered that one is facing an attempt to “civilizational setback”, especially through the creation of a “first Portuguese and others second” paradigm.
Paulo Muacho, from Livre, pointed out that in today’s debate, the minister of presidency, António Leitão Amaro, used a ‘slogan’ from the arrival – “for Portugal, by the Portuguese” – and commented that “the” no no ‘, Luís Montenegro, in the face of arrival, after all, it is a soap ball. “
On the contrary, by the PSD, former Secretary of State Paulo Lopes Marcelo warned that the law of nationality is “an important instrument” to the sovereignty of the country and accused the PS “and the extreme left” of introducing “simplistic and facilitating rules with consequences that are in sight of all”.
Paulo Lopes Marcelo argued that the acquisition of nationality must assume an effective adhesion to the values of the community and said that Portugal currently has about 1.5 million immigrants, which imposes “prudence” in the criteria of attribution of nationality.
Earlier, CDS parliamentary leader Paulo Nuncio stated that his party defends the revision of the nationality law “for 20 years”.
“The CDS was right ahead of time,” said Paulo Nuncio.
By the way, Cristina Rodrigues accused the PS governments of having “sold in bulk of nationality” and sought to accentuate the principle of her party that the acquisition of nationality “is a privilege and a responsibility”, presupposing, among other characteristics, knowledge of the Portuguese language.
Former liberal initiative leader Rui Rocha manifested globally according to government diplomas.
“In recent years, in the matter of immigration, there has been an uncontrolled, especially as a result of the adoption of the regime of manifestation of interest,” he added.
