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Speaking to journalists, André Ventura said that he wants to meet with Ferro Rodrigues urgently, “this week or next,” to discuss the recent decisions of the president of parliament, including the opinion he requested on the draft constitutional revision presented by the Enough.
The deputy and leader of Chega admitted that some of the bills presented, which represent the party’s “electoral flags”, may violate the Constitution, such as the chemical castration of pedophiles, which led the party to demand a revision of the Constitution.
“If we are revising the Constitution, God help me, how is it that the revision of the Constitution will not conflict with some things in the Constitution? You don’t have to think too hard to come to that conclusion, “he said.
Anticipating that the objections of the other parties and the president are based on the article on the limits to the revision of the Basic Law, Ventura recalled that his project plans to “end” these limits to open the field for discussion.
The president of the Assembly of the Republic “understands that these limits should be applied as if it were the Bible,” but the “Constitution is not a Bible,” he stressed.
Despite affirming respect for the “founding fathers” of democracy and those who made the Constitution in 1976, and defending Portugal as “a democratic state of law,” André Ventura assumed differences.
“This regime no longer represents us or the majority of the people,” he said, and said that he was in favor of the constitutional review “being a process open to popular sovereignty.”
“In fact,” he said, “limits are always fictitious” because “when regimes change, they cease to exist.”
For André Ventura, it is necessary to break the cycle of invocation of the Constitution to prevent the parliament from debating issues that are taking place in other European countries, such as reducing the number of deputies or the chemical castration of pedophiles.
And he complained that “when the time comes to change” with his proposals “he cannot because the Constitution does not allow it.
“What if you want to change the Constitution? Do not leave. What can be done? Absolutely nothing. This is ridiculous, ”he said.
The Constitutional Affairs Commission concluded today that two Chega initiatives were unconstitutional, a bill to limit the number of ministers and a resolution proposing a referendum to reduce the number of deputies, in response to an opinion requested by the president of the parliament. .
Ferro Rodrigues’s office was reported on Tuesday, rejecting another draft of the Chega law, this one to limit the position of prime minister and other government officials to only Portuguese citizens.
