Head of State declined to comment on the case of non Correia de Campos election
The President said today that will enact the Left Bloc’s degree (BE) regulating the replacement of pregnancy approved in parliament with amendments following the presidential veto on June 8.
on arrival at the delivery ceremony of the Gulbenkian prize Gulbenkian held in the outdoor amphitheater of the institution, in Lisbon, in response to journalists, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa began by saying he will wait for receiving the diploma to decide whether promulgates or not.
However immediately afterwards added. “But promulgate obviously”
Asked about the accusations of PSD to the government related to banking, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa replied: “Do you think the President will comment on this? it will not. This is part of the war between the government and opposition. “
the head of state would also not comment on the non António Correia de Campos’s election to the post of President of the Economic and Social Council (CES) for not having obtained the required two-thirds vote of the deputies:. “even less, because the President does not vote in these polls the Assembly”
António Correia de Campos, former Minister of Health, was also present on this ceremony in the gardens of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and was approached by reporters, but declined to give evidence.
June 8, the President vetoed the bill on replacement pregnancy, designed by BE, stressing the articulated did not accept the conditions recommended by the National Council of Ethics and the Life Sciences.
“Therefore, I believe should the Parliament have the opportunity to consider, once again, if you want to receive the conditions recommended by the National Council of Ethics and the Life Sciences, now unconsecrated or even away, “he said in the note released this veto.
BE law introduces into the Portuguese law the possibility a woman bear a pregnancy for others and deliver the child after birth, renouncing the powers and motherhood duties, the exceptional and gratuitous nature title, for cases such as the absence of uterus.
This legislation had been passed in parliament in global final vote on 13 May, with favorable votes of PS, BE and PEV, PAN and 24 deputies of the PSD, including the president of this party and former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho .
in this first round, most of the PSD bench voted against, as well as PCP, CDS-PP and two members of the PS, and three social Democrats abstained.
today, the law was approved, with amendments, with favorable votes of BE, PS, ENP, PAN and 20 Members of the PSD with votes against the majority of Members PSD, PCP, the CDS-PP and two members of PS, and the abstention of eight social Democrats deputies, including the chairman of this party and former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
in the morning, Pedro Passos Coelho called for the PS to make feasible the postponement of the vote and said that if this did not happen could change their vote against the first vote.
However, the PSD’s request to postpone this diploma obtained only votes in favor of PSD and CDS -PP, abstaining from PCP and PS against votes, bE, ENP and PAN, being rejected by the plenary.
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