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At the press conference he gave this Sunday when he visited an informal caregiver – and drawing the attention of the Government to how much remains to be done in this chapter – Marcelo used the word “save” several times. He “saved” laws, “saved” budgets and is now undertaking the “preventive salvation” so that the next two budgets are approved and a political crisis does not open. The promulgation of diplomas that violate the brake law and that made Costa furious to send the laws to the Constitutional Court had, said the President, that objective. In the message, he had already called the minority government to dialogue – which, by the way, is of the most elementary clairvoyance and Costa’s obsession with governing as if he had an absolute majority has not brought anything good so far, not even though the polls they continue to support him a lot.
Marcelo has taken a beating these days, with all the constitutionalists converging on what promulgated an unconstitutional law. The fact is that not only most of the Parliaments approved the laws (one of them even had the support of the PS), but last year – Marcelo recalled – the supplementary budget had more income than expenses and nobody bothered.
The president also recalled that the Constitution has “social justice values” there. In a year in which the Government, due to the pandemic, prohibited the right to work to a very high number of Portuguese – “Everyone has the right to work”, according to article 58 of the Constitution – the suspension of this constitutional right makes Even more necessary is the “Values of social justice” established by the Constitution.
The idea of a president acting on behalf of the “preventive salvation” of state budgets remains “creative”, as the prime minister would say. After the removal of the Block, it is very likely that the PCP and the PAN will continue to make the minority government budgets feasible. But sometimes, historic accelerations do occur, and the upcoming municipal elections can be a turning point: the transfiguration of the PCP from a street party to an even more institutional party that has previously resulted in significant electoral losses.
Ordinary people understand the need for more social support because they have a skin breakdown. Portugal is one of the countries, at a European level, that has spent the least to combat the devastating effects of Covid. And in terms of response to the crisis, the European Union has been a dwarf, compared to the giant response of the United States. Ah, there are also other things in the Constitution that nobody cares about. See article 72: “The elderly have the right to economic security and housing conditions.” Or article 65: “Everyone has the right, for himself and his family, to adequate housing.” We have a country that is quite unconstitutional.
