Rebelo de Sousa, who launched a second five-year term this year, plans to inform the Portuguese of his decision tonight.
Portugal hopes that its president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will announce at the end of today the dissolution of Parliament and the call for early elections to get out of the open political crisis in the country with the rejection of the Budget for 2022.
Rebelo de Sousa, who launched a second five-year term this year, plans to inform the Portuguese of his decision tonight, and although the Portuguese Constitution does not oblige to go to elections when a Budget does not go ahead, no one doubts that that it will be the way to go.
The Head of State already made it clear even before the vote on the 2022 accounts that he was leaning towards the electoral advance, a solution that almost all the parties support and that was supported yesterday by a majority by the Council of State.
For citizens, the electoral advance is also the best option to get out of the crisis, according to 59% of the Portuguese questioned in a poll published this Thursday, although 54% consider that going to the polls early is “bad ”.
January 30 gains strength
In Portugal, the debate has been installed on the date that will be most appropriate to hold the elections, with January 30 as the option that has been gaining strength throughout the week.
The date is decisive for some parties, especially within the right wing, whom the political crisis has caught with primaries on the horizon to resolve internal disputes.
The main conservative party, the PSD (center-right), which leads the opposition, planned to hold primaries between its leader, Rui Rio, and MEP Paulo Rangel on December 4.
In a similar situation are the Christian Democrats of the CDS, historical allies of the PSD, who were going to hold elections this month, between their current president, Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, and MEP Nuno Melo.
Although most of the parties transmitted to the president last weekend that they opted for January 16 as the most appropriate date for the elections, so as not to prolong the crisis, everything indicates that the polls will wait a couple of weeks plus.
This week, more than a hundred personalities signed a letter in which they asked Rebelo de Sousa for “time” and proposed that the elections be held in February, and most of the state councilors defended giving margin for the parties to prepare.
The Socialists, who had asked for elections as quickly as possible, would agree to wait until January 30, according to the weekly Expresso, which would further support the president to opt for that date.
Parliament, marathon
While they wait for the president to announce the date of the dissolution of Parliament, the deputies are holding several marathon sessions this week to manage the maximum possible measures until then.
Among the issues that remained pending and that need to be resolved before the dissolution are the regulation of telework and the decriminalization of euthanasia, which returns to the Chamber after the Constitutional Court vetoed the law approved earlier this year. (I )
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