Former Social Democratic minister Rui Gomes da Silva and constitutionalist Bacelar Gouveia will participate in Chega’s parliamentary days, which will take place on the 11th and 12th in Setúbal, dedicated to constitutional reform.
Gomes da Silva was deputy minister of the government headed by Pedro Santana Lopes (2004 to 2005), vice president of Benfica in the first terms of office of Luís Filipe Vieira and sports commentator for SIC, in addition to being several times elected deputy for the PSD .
Jorge Bacelar Gouveia, a university professor specializing in constitutional affairs, was a deputy in the XI legislature elected by Faro, who almost always took positions close to the Social Democrats.
A statement from Chega released this Thursday also confirmed the presence of lawyer and television commentator António Pinto Pereira and professor and member of the National Election Commission Fernando Silva.
Chega’s second parliamentary days in less than two months will be “dedicated solely to the constitutional review process it plans to open in September”.
Chega plans to begin the process of reviewing the fundamental law in the “first two weeks” of September, pending “contributions from all other parties and civil society”.
The far-right parliamentary days coincide with those of the PS, which take place on the same days, in the district of Leiria.
At the beginning of the final days, which took place in Figueira da Foz (Coimbra) in early July, Ventura announced its intention to start a process of constitutional reform in September.
This process, he said on the occasion, will affect “what the system does not want”, namely life imprisonment, one of the flags of the party, which was included several times in a proposal for deliberation in parliament, but which was not debated because it was unconstitutional.
The chairman of the far-right party said in recent days that he also plans to reduce the number of deputies and holders of political positions.
Amendments to the constitution require the approval of two-thirds of the votes of the Assembly of the Republic. However, since the last regular review took place more than five years ago, the transfer by a party of a review party automatically opens the process.
Rui Rio’s PSD had a constitutional reform project that was not delivered to parliament due to the party’s succession process.
The PS, for its part, has already admitted that it does not need a major overhaul of the fundamental law.
Source: DN
