The CDS today asked the President of the Republic to send the law decriminalizing, under certain conditions, medically assisted death to the Constitutional Court so that it can be checked for compliance with the Constitution.
“We strongly appeal to the President of the Republic to refer this unjust law to the Constitutional Court so that its constitutionality can be properly assessed,” said a statement from the CDS-PP.
For the party led by Nuno Melo, which lost its parliamentary representation in the parliamentary elections in January, when it was still chaired by Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, “the defense of a society where the constitutional values of dignity and freedom and human rights are truly to be respected and complied with is essential”.
“The CDS-PP will continue to fight so that the most vulnerable are not left behind,” the text also reads.
On Thursday, the centrists had already demonstrated, also in a statement, against the passing of the law that regulates the conditions for medically assisted death.
“The CDS is against euthanasia. For us, suffering without guidance and without treatment will never be an option,” Nuno Melo and former deputies Isabel Galriça Neto, Telmo Correia and Paulo Núncio said in a statement.
The text on the decriminalization of medically assisted death is being debated today in a final global vote in parliament, an issue that has already passed three legislative terms and two presidential vetoes.
The initiative that goes to the plenary of the Republic is based on bills from the PS, Liberal Initiative, BE and PAN, and was approved this Wednesday in the specialty in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, after three postponements .
Source: DN
