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The last voice to express “great reservations” regarding the mandatory application is the leader of the Social Democratic Youth Alexandre Poço. DN says that this “obligation to install Stayaway Covid on people’s phones endangers the privacy and rights, freedoms and guarantees of citizens.” The deputy also affirms that it follows what has been the European understanding of applications and “that of voluntary use”.
More violent reactions against the government diploma that the PSD leader intends to approve in a plenary vote to be discussed in the parliamentary committee – with the exception that “as it is, I do not think it is justified”, multiplied in the PSD and in the parliamentary bench.
This Friday, the former vice president of the parliamentary group José Eduardo Martins spoke out against the possibility of the PSD to make the Stayaway Covid application mandatory.
Num post no Facebook, José Eduardo Martins hints at the possibility of leaving the PSD, where he has been a member since 1985, if the leader of his party ends up accepting the mandatory application of the Stayaway Covid application, after Rui Rio said that he is not concerned about citizen rights.
Parallel to the words of the President of the Republic on the need to rethink the Christmas festivities, he writes: “Now this, even if it is only the lack of culture of one man, may be the position of my party. And if it is, I’ll have to rethink Christmas. I don’t feel like this family, for the first time after spending my life there. “
The former vice president of the Social Democratic parliamentary caucus recalls that he has been a militant with paid dues since 1985, but “it is a relationship that has been gaining distance over time. As in large families, we live our lives, disagreeing a lot, but feeling, to despite everything, that when necessary we are all on the same side “.
In his post, José Eduardo Martins joins a story whose title is “Rui Rio admits that it is mandatory if the Stayaway Covid application is effective.”
On Thursday, speaking to reporters in parliament, Rui Rio said that the PSD will generally make the diploma viable. But then, in the specialty, he will wait and see, due, in particular, to the hearings that the PS has already proposed to the CNDP, to constitutionalists and medical specialists.
In the parliamentary opposition, Rio was the voice of exception with respect to the general intention of failing the government diploma without appeal or appeal. All the parties spoke out on the matter: BE, PCP, CDS, PAN, PEV, Liberal Initiative and Chega.
The controversy was such that even the ruling party admitted reservations. The leader of the socialist caucus, Ana Catarina Mendes, spoke of “doubts about constitutionality.”
“Insensibly” and “stupid”
PSD deputies also multiplied in statements against the announced measure. The former leader of the JSD, Margarida Balseiro Lopes, was inflexible on Facebook: “On the government’s proposal to make the use of the STAYAWAY COVID mobile application mandatory: it is indecent. It is legally and constitutionally unacceptable.”
And he asked: “Put the security forces in charge of inspecting this use? This intention, which will certainly be no more than that, is above all revealing of the government’s erroneous belief that the pandemic has made democracy disappear.”
The deputy Duarte Marques also shared in that social network a text written for an online newspaper Mediotejo.net in which he defends the mandatory use of masks -which says only “sin late” – since for the StayWayCovid App it was manifested “at all disagreement”. . N not for privacy or for fear of data protection, among other things because today we already voluntarily give data for much less important situations, he says, “but because I consider an abuse of individual rights to force someone to use a certain application and more the police to inspect “.
“The idea is as stupid as it is unrealistic. Not all Portuguese have access to a suitable telephone, secondly, APP is not even prepared to receive so many people. So it is just folklore to distract even because, until now, In the midst of so many infected, doctors only issued 116 codes. It seems inconceivable that whoever does not have an APP cannot walk down the street or be forced to use a mobile phone. This proposal is unconstitutional, “he writes.
Even more devastating to the government’s proposal was the chairman of the Constitutional Affairs committee. Speaking to TSF, the Social Democratic deputy Marques Guedes considered it “dubious constitutionality.”
Marques Guedes also defended the mandatory mask in public space, but rejected that this principle applies to the application and raised the question of the effectiveness of the law. “For it to be effective, it would be necessary to have a legal obligation, which makes no sense, that people carry a cell phone. Even people who have a cell phone may not have it, they can leave it at home. There is no legal obligation. for him to walk daily with his cell phone, ”says the deputy and former PSD minister.
“To force people to walk with a cell phone, the State had to give each citizen a cell phone, which is completely impractical,” adds Marques Guedes, who also highlights that the Government does not propose that the use of the application be mandatory in Public spaces. , which also reduces the effectiveness of the measure.
Rio’s flexible position
With regard to voting in general, on a date not yet set, the government’s proposal that makes the application of covid monitoring mandatory will be approved. Rui Rio shook hands with Costa.
The legal obligation that the government wants to impose on everyone to have the StayAway Covid application on their mobile phone “has no conditions to enter into force”, but for now Rui Rio does not want to “defeat the diploma.”
The explanations passed from the PSD leader, this Thursday, to the journalists of Parliament.
According to him, the PSD will generally make the diploma viable. But then, in the specialty, he will wait and see, due, in particular, to the hearings that the PS has already proposed to the CNDP, the constitutionalists and medical specialists.
What matters to the Social Democratic leader is that the government guarantees effectiveness: “Imagine that people have the application installed, while the pandemic spreads and they begin to be notified. It is guaranteed that everyone, within a few hours, can take the test “I think the government can hardly guarantee this.”
“If the government comes to guarantee this and it comes to guarantee a series of important things, it will soon be seen. As it is, I don’t think it is justified,” he added.
However, the PSD will present a project in which it takes up the government’s proposal, but only to the extent that it imposes the use of a mask in public space. And for this project, Rio wants an urgent approval, already in final and global format, so that it can take effect quickly.
