This Monday, the PS parliamentary leader accused the PSD of being a supporter of the far-right agenda by proposing a referendum on euthanasia and believed that Luís Montenegro disavowed the Social Democratic bench on the matter.
This position was taken by Eurico Brilhante Dias in response to Luís Montenegro’s announcement that the Social Democratic parliamentary group will table a draft resolution calling for a referendum on the decriminalization of euthanasia.
“Agrees that medically assisted death is not an offense when practiced or assisted by health professionals, by decision of the older person, whose will is current and repeated, serious, free and clear, in a situation of suffering of great intensity, with final injury of extreme seriousness or severe and incurable disease?”is the referendum question proposed by the PSD.
For the chairman of the PS group, this PSD proposal “shows that Luís Montenegro lives conditioned by the parliamentary extreme right”.
“That is why today he has again decided to change the position of the PPD/PSD, in a docile attitude towards the far-right party that sits in this parliament”he declared.
In front of journalists, Eurico Brilhante Dias referred that on July 9 of this year, the parliament voted on the bill for the decriminalization of medically assisted death and at the same time voted on a draft resolution from Chega to request a referendum.
This motion for a resolution [do Chega] was failed with PS votes, but not only. Incidentally, it was also not achieved with votes from PPD / PSD deputies “noted.
As for the PSD’s proposal for a referendum on euthanasia, on the PS side it is expected that the vast majority of socialist deputies will vote against, although Eurico Brilhante Dias mentions that his bank “generally has freedom of voting”🇧🇷
“This intervention by the President of the PPD/PSD is an authentic rejection of his parliamentary group. The PSD parliamentary group has cooperated in a very positive way, working actively in committee and in the working group. This issue has already been postponed three times and on none of those occasions has the PSD faction even raised the issue of the referendum”orphan.
For Eurico Brilhante Dias, the country is “for a pirouette” of the PSD leadership to “follow the far-right agenda”.
“It was important for the PPD/PSD to free itself from this conditioning, because it is a historic party, founded by Francisco Sá Carneiro and Magalhães Mota. The PSD must constructively oppose the government, but always pursuing the far-right agenda is harmful and does not help parliamentary clarification of who the Democrats are”he added.
In the statements he made, the chairman of the parliamentary group of the PS also referred to the ongoing process on medically assisted death in the Assembly of the Republic, saying that this debate is already five years old.
“It is a mature process that goes through three legislatures and has already had the intervention of other sovereign bodies”he remarked, here in reference to the Constitutional Court and the President of the Republic.
According to Eurico Brilhante Dias, the vote in the committee has already been postponed three times during this legislature due to minor adjustments to the text, always with great cooperation from the PPD/PSD.
“If we are going to vote this week on a consensus document among all supporters, it is completely out of place that the chairman of the PPD/PSD is presenting today a proposal for a referendum that does not give credibility to politics and in particular to politics. , the largest opposition party”insisted.
From the perspective of the chairman of the PS party, whether or not a referendum will exist in this legislature is a matter of regionalization.
“Luís Montenegro knows that if he wants a referendum, it is possible to do it in 2024. This is the regionalization referendum, the referendum that was agreed in the PS and PSD under the leadership of Rui Rio. PPD/ PSD has no opinion on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and another one on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday”he added.
Source: DN
