President of Portugal dissolves Parliament and calls early elections
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, officially dissolved Parliament and called early elections for January 30, 2022
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, signed this Sunday the decree of official dissolution of the Parliament of the country and called early elections for this January 30, 2022, as he had announced the previous month. The signing of the decree was announced through a statement.
The president waited until the last day, which ended this Sunday, December 5 in accordance with the provisions of the law, to officially dissolve the Parliament of Portugal in order to give the legislative body time to process the largest number of laws that were pending, such as the anti-corruption measures and the law on euthanasia, which was vetoed.
The dissolution of Parliament is a consequence of the rejection of the budget for 2022 presented by the “Socialist Government of António Costa in the Chamber at the end of November, with the votes against his former left-wing partners.”
Give the power back to the people of Portugal
Given this scenario, the president of the country considered it necessary to call elections as a solution to the problem and blockage of the budget, which occurred just in the middle of the term of the legislative power. “It is part of the life of democracy to give the power to the people,” said the President on November 4 when he announced the decision to call early elections.
António Costa, from the socialist party, will run again to be prime minister and maintains the leadership in the polls. However, opinion studies maintain that there will be no absolute majority, therefore the strategy is to negotiate.
Costa came to power as prime minister in 2015 and although his party was not the most voted, he established agreements with the parties of the left, managing to stay in office for 4 years. In 2019 the Socialists managed to win, but “eight deputies of the absolute majority remained and Costa decided to govern alone without agreements, negotiating measure by measure, a strategy that was exhausted two years later.”
M. Rodríguez
Source: larazon.es
