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Portugal: President of the Ordem dos Advogados Luís Menezes Leitão stresses that the new proposals presented by both PS Socialists and PSD social democrats will leave Portugal free to adopt the very same policies that China has adopted, in terms of Covid-19.

“Unhappily, in the meantime, various projects have been presented in Portugal for constitutional revision that restrict the right to liberty, thus allowing similar measures (to take place here).

“Instead of compensating for the enormous violations of fundamental rights practised during the pandemic” proposed changes presented for voting in parliament are seeking to “constitutioinalise them, abdicating the essential core of the Constitution”, he says.

“Portugal will thus be free to also adopt Zero Covid policies, which in practice constitute zero freedom”, the Law Society president concludes.

Constitutionalist Jorge Miranda attempted very much to do the same over the weekend – highlight different aspects of proposed Constitutional reform, but suggesting the same effect smacking of ‘dictatorship’ – in Portugal’s case a return to dictatorship that was the springboard for drawing up the Constitution in 1976 as it remains today.

Elsewhere, Lisbon lawyer Ricardo Graça writes:

We must not forget that the 1976 Constitution was undeniably an act of freedom and democratic affirmation. Now, a perverse autocratic exercise is being prepared by a dozen powerful people who want to stitch up the Constitution at the mercy of the powers of the system, without the slightest shadow of democratic mandate. They have already done so since the pandemic began, playing out completely on home soil. The Judicial System just let it all go ahead for as long as they wanted.

According to Graça, if the current changes, as proposed by PS Socialists and PSD social democrats, manage to wriggle their way into the Constitution “democracy and even the rule of law in Portugal” will “purely and simply end”.

Graça insists:

We are talking about the demolition of the rule of law, a huge and crucial direct attack on judicial independence, the intrusion in the exclusive internal decision-making of the courts, and in particular of the Constitutional Court.

https://www.portugalresident.com/zero-liberty-law-society-boss-warns-portugal-is-sleepwalking-into-chinas-dictatorial-shadow/