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northOn Thursday, the vice president of the socialist group Constança Urbano de Sousa said that the PS “will fully comply” with the objections This led to the veto of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to review the law.
The amendments to the law were approved with votes in favor of PS, BE, PCP, BREAD, PEV, Unregistered members Joacine Qatar Moreira and Cristina Rodrigues, against PSD, CDS, Enough and the abstention of the Liberal Initiative deputy.
The proposed amendments tabled by BE and the Liberal Initiative (IL), differing from those of the PS, were rejected.
No case two blockers, that the granting of nationality did not depend on the duration of the marriage or a de facto union and for the LC that had a minimum term of two years.
The Nationality Law, vetoed by the President of the Republic in August, had been approved in a final global vote on 23 July by the left and the PAN and with the opposition of PSD, CDS-PP, Liberal Initiative and Basta.
In justifying the veto, the head of state pointed out that he was facing regulations that dispensed with the “application of the generic regime regarding couples linked by marriage or de facto union with children in common, children of Portuguese nationality.”
“It seems to me politically unfair, because it is disproportionate, putting couples without children at a disadvantage, as well as, above all, couples with children, endowed with Portuguese nationality, but who are not children in common,” he said.
Also according to the head of state, “the material presumption of greater cohesion or stability in couples with children, and in them, with children in common, children with Portuguese nationality is carried too far.”
In the debate review of the law, this morning previous discussions were reissued, although little related to the aspects vetoed by the president.
On the left, PS, BE and PCP they praised the solutions of a “generous law” and the rights granted, for example, to the children of immigrants.
The right, PSD, CDS and Chega criticized the changes done from the left to the diploma, because the “law was fine as it was”, in the words of the centrist deputy Telmo Correia.
Former PS Minister and Deputy Constança Urbano de Sousa dramatized the effects of the presidential veto, given that, he argued, “it does not question” the “essential of the law”, that is, the principle of the right to land (‘jus alone‘), when granting nationality to those born in national territory.
“Deepen the soil well so that the children of emigrants can have Portuguese nationality when they are born in Portugal,” he described.
In part of PCP, author of one of Projects who was in the base of the law, the deputy António Filipe said that it was “very important for children who are born in Portugal and can acquire their nationality.”
The Left Bloc also presented proposals for changes so that the granting of nationality does not depend on the duration of the marriage or a de facto union.
The veto, he said, is an “opportunity to remove some obstacles that prevent the full integration of immigrants in Portugal,” justified Beatriz Gomes Dias, from BE.
Fur PSD, Deputy Catarina Rocha Ferreira affirmed that the new law “means a easy immense for a European passport “, whether the immigrant has” residence, legal or illegal “and said that it is necessary to ensure that Portugal” is never an occasion maternity “.
Telmo Correia, from CDS, criticized the successive reduction of the deadlines for granting nationality, from five to two and now to one year.
“It is a mistake that this initiative does not stop, but encourages,” he said.
André Ventura, from Chega, accused the PS of, in this law, having “yielded to the extreme left” and affirmed that nationality is “close to being criminal” because it is possible grantto whoever is illegally in the country.
According to PAN, Nelson Silva said that Marcelo’s veto is “at least strange,” since it raises doubts about a law he enacted in 2018.
“It seems to legitimize the idea that this veto seems to want to hide under the formalism a greater divergence that, for convenience, should not be assumed,” he said.
The unregistered member Joacine Qatar Moreira (ex-Livre) admitted that “great advances were not made in the law”, but highlighted the “enormous impact” of the legislation with a “more logical humanizing of those who ask for nationality “.
The law, already amended by parliament, will be sent to the President of the Republic for his decision.
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