The coordinator of Bolo de Esquerda (BE), Catarina Martins, said this Sunday that it will be difficult “to understand that there are more obstacles” to the entry into force of the law on euthanasia, noting that the President of the Republic “will do what he wants”.
The text of the law approved in the Assembly of the Republic on Friday will go to the head of state and, considered the leader of the Left Bloc, “it is difficult that there are obstacles to this law at the moment”, pointing out that “the president will do whatever he wants”.
“As this is the third time Parliament has passed it, it is the third legislature in which this law is being debated, the Constitutional Court has already ruled and says it is constitutionally relevant, the details you asked for have been made, The President of the Republic did not raise any constitutional obstacle, he just said that there was a terminological problem that he wanted resolved and it was resolved and therefore it is difficult to understand that there are more obstacles to the law being enacted. , he insisted.
Catarina Martins spoke in Mirandela, in the Bragança district, on the sidelines of a session with the movement opposing the installation of a wind farm in Serra dos Passos.
Asked by journalists about the expectation regarding the decision that the President of the Republic will take regarding the law decriminalizing medically assisted death, the BE coordinator stressed that “it has been approved for the third time in Parliament by a very diverse political majority” and considered that “it is a very careful law”, “made in three legislatures”.
Catarina Martins insisted that the current version of the law answers all questions and defended that “there is no reason for the country to wait any longer to have a law that respects anyone facing a situation of excruciating suffering at the end of his life”.
“It is above all a law of tolerance, a law of rights, careful and now is the time for Portugal to finally have this law,” he said.
Source: DN
