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Parliament gave the green light to the presidential decree establishing the renewal of the state of emergency, which now remain in effect from 00:00 hours on November 24 and until 23:59 hours on December 8.
The renewal was approved only with the favorable votes of PS and PSD. The CDS, the PAN and the Left Bloc abstained, while the PCP, Verdes, Chega and the Liberal Initiative voted against.
The unregistered deputy Cristina Rodrigues also voted in favor, while Joacine Katar Moreira again voted against. This is, then, the state of exception with the least parliamentary support, since only 187 deputies voted in favor. The CDS had voted in favor 15 days ago and has now abstained, while Chega has abstained and has now voted against.
This is the fifth state of emergency since the outbreak of the pandemic in Portugal and the second since the beginning of the second wave.
But unlike the lighter measures envisaged in the state of emergency in force until November 23, this renewed state of exception provides for the tightening of restrictions, such as “compulsory confinement” or the closure of companies, and the possibility of leveling Measures based on the different levels of contagion by municipality, which will be distributed through three different levels of restriction. This Thursday, the prime minister, António Costa, admitted that on Sunday there are provinces to leave the list of high risk of contagion.
The Government and the Presidency of the Republic consider it necessary to strengthen measures to contain the pandemic at a time when November, although it has not yet ended, is already the month with the highest number of deaths from covid-19 and with more new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus. A study of the The National School of Public Health reported today by Public reports that there is a growing number of Portuguese who consider measures against the pandemic little or not adequate.
The Congress of the PCP marks the debate
The interventions that preceded the vote that prolonged the state of emergency were marked by the criticism that parties such as PSD and CDS made of the celebration of the National Congress of the PCP, at the end of this month, despite the security measures already guaranteed by the communists.
The PSD hopes that the government will not try “some saloia ability” to allow the PCP Congress to take place, and asked the government to be “clear, consistent and politically honest. “For some prohibitions-dictate for others accept even exceptions. Millions of Portuguese blocked from home. A hundred communist militants in the life of a gay congressman, ”criticized the Social Democratic parliamentary leader, Adam Silva.
PS and it considered that the presidential decree to renew the state of emergency establishes a “framework of limited use, and provided differentiated powers that allowed the exponential Government” of the covid-19. “It is in this context of limited use, weighted, gradual, differentiated and proportional to the powers that the state of emergency grants to the Government that, today, we vote in favor of its renewal and that it is essential to break the spiral of propagation,” he justified the former minister. Internal Administration, Constança Urbano de Sousa.
OR The parliamentary leader of the bloc, Pedro Filipe Soares, explained the party’s abstention. “We hope that it will help the Government to live up to the moment we are going through and not complain to the Assembly of the Republic about the tools it has at its disposal. It is not a blank mandate and it will be clearly monitored by us in its application”, he warned.
But the PCP questioned whether the PSD criticized the holding of the Party Congress, in times of pandemic by “order” of the comings, assuring that the meeting will be held “with all health security conditions.” João Oliveira fled the written speech after hearing the intervention of PSD deputy Adão Silva, who criticized the communist congress that takes place between next Friday and Sunday. The deputy and parliamentary leader of the PCP warned of the risk that rights, such as politicians, may be being “sacrificed” in measures to contain the epidemic outbreak. “The congress will be held with all the health security conditions, giving an example of what we defend in relation to all areas of the country,” he said.
For its part, the PAN admitted that a new state of emergency is necessary, but considered that the measures taken by the Government in this legal framework must meet “criteria of proportionality or necessity.” “The declaration of the state of exception is absolutely exceptional in nature and its successive renewals should in no way weaken democracy or lead to the loss of confidence of citizens in the capacity of sovereign institutions and bodies,” declared Inês Sousa Real, leader PAN parliamentarian.
The president of Enough accused the prime minister of deceiving the Portuguese with the containment measures of the covid-19 pandemic adopted in the current state of emergency and ironically suggested that it was the PCP to organize Christmas. “The parties, as well as the Portuguese, feel disappointed. What they told us was that there was the legal hat that would allow us to take measures to control the pandemic and what we had were absurd restrictions that killed commerce and restaurants, concentrated and confined people at times when they should not have been confined, which impeded social life, ”criticizes André Ventura.
The parliamentary leader of the CDS, on the other hand, accused the Government of responding “with cents to the millionaire losses” for the measures to combat the pandemic and warned the Government that “there is no margin for more errors. Telmo Correia said that in the previous debate he defended “that the measures had to be balanced and visible”, stressing that this was “all that did not happen.” “What we saw were confusing, imperceptible or unjustifiable measures, which led to avoidable hourly and people concentrations and, at the same time, unnecessary economic losses,” he lamented, saying that the “Government responded with cents to the losses of millions.”
Green questioned the usefulness of a state of emergency to combat the pandemic covid-19 and called on the Government to strengthen the National Health Service and the security of its citizens. The position was taken by the parliamentary leader of the “Os Verdes” Ecological Party (ENV), José Luís Ferreira, who also defended the need for the Government to “properly explain” the measures it could adopt, although, for this, it does not need the State. exception. “It is not the state of emergency that allows the government to give the necessary responses. That is why the Greens are voting against its renewal,” said the ENP deputy.
The president of the Liberal Initiative accused the prime minister of making decisions to contain the covid-19 pandemic “on the basis of nothingness” and of “destroying” the restaurant sector. João Cotrim Figueiredo regretted the “disorientation” and “incompetence” of the executive headed by António Costa, in the parliamentary debate on the request to renew the state of emergency.
“The government has made decisions that will destroy a sector [restauração] “based on nothing,” he said. The only deputy of the Liberal Initiative said that, “48 hours before the state of emergency came into force, the prime minister said that he did not contemplate the introduction of the curfew”, but “it was soon the first measure.”
(Updated news with statements from all parties)
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