IL available to negotiate a solution with the Government regarding the law on foreigners

The Liberal Initiative (IL) is available to “negotiate an urgent and rigorous solution” to overcome any impasse in the foreigners’ law “rejected” by the Constitutional Court (TC), the party’s president announced today.

In a letter sent to Carlos Abreu Amorim, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, to which Lusa had access, Mariana Leitão proposes to dialogue with the executive to obtain "an urgent and rigorous solution" to the law that, with the "rejection" of the TC and the veto of the President of the Republic, does not come into force and has to be discussed and voted on again in parliament.

Mariana Leitão writes, in the letter, that to overcome a possible “undesirable impasse situation”, IL expresses its “openness to negotiating an urgent, rigorous solution with adequate procedural guarantees.

And it is available to, as a result of a “negotiated solution, participate in a possible 2/3 majority for the approval of the diploma, if the amended proposal again raises politically motivated reservations on the part of the Constitutional Court”.

The law now rejected by the TC judges was approved on July 16 in the Assembly of the Republic, with favorable votes from PSD, Chega and CDS-PP, abstention from IL and votes against from PS, Livre, PCP, BE, PAN and JPP.

The Constitutional Court "rejected" five rules of the parliamentary decree that approves the legal regime for the entry, stay, exit and removal of foreigners from the national territory.

The diploma, sent by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, to the TC for constitutional review on July 24, will now be returned to parliament so that the rules that violate the fundamental law can be changed.