The PSD leader this Saturday pushed for the need to introduce electronic voting in Portugal to facilitate participation in elections by people from outside the country, in a scenario where fewer and fewer people vote.
“We won’t be able to wait forever for an impulse that is inevitable. I know we have to guarantee the reliability of the vote, we have to guarantee that the popular will is not falsified, but we already rely on many technologies for many things are or more important than that,” he said.
Montenegro spoke at the summer meeting of Portuguese PSD communities, held at a hotel in Albufeira, Faro district, and attended by community representatives from Canada, South Africa, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Brazil.
According to the PSD leader, after the proposal to implement electronic voting in a non-face-to-face manner failed in parliament, the party has included in its constitutional revision project the possibility of enshrining the electoral law in Portugal.
“The country needs to look at this and especially look at it, because fewer and fewer people are participating in politics,” he stressed, adding that there needs to be “an adjustment of the representation of communities” in election papers.
For the president of the PSD, the process, which was not consensual, was also opposed by the PS, which, according to Luís Montenegro, “wants the communities to be funneled” to see “if it controls them better”, because “the fewer there are , the easier to control”
Luís Montenegro also said that Portugal should prepare for the next European elections, which will take place on June 9, 2024, a date that has been criticized because in Portugal’s case it is the eve of the Dia de Portugal holiday and coincides with a long weekend.
“The country must prepare for that day and is preparing. We will guarantee, at least apparently, the mobility vote, that is, we will be able to vote not only for the place of our residence, but also for the place where we were found, ” he said.
But, he lamented, “there had to be some elections scheduled in Europe, which took place on a day that is actually problematic for the country,” for this step to be taken or it wouldn’t have happened.
“What we want is for the country to be able to take these steps without having a last-minute pair of pants to solve an acute problem,” he stressed.
Source: DN
