The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, vetoed this Friday, 8, changes to immigration laws approved in July by the Assembly of the Republic.
The veto followed a ruling by the Constitutional Court, which found five provisions in the package that tightened Law 23/2007, which regulates the entry and stay of foreigners, unconstitutional. With the veto, the president returned the text to Parliament for constitutional adaptation.
Repercussion in the Italian community
On his Instagram profile, former deputy in the Italian Parliament and Lega representative in Brazil, Luis Roberto Lorenzato, reacted to the veto and compared the Portuguese scenario with measures adopted in Italy.
He stated: "The president of Portugal questioned the conditionality of the immigration law, and the Portuguese Supreme Court annulled that law. In Italy, President Mattarella was cowardly in not vetoing the Tajani decree or submitting it to the constitutional court.
He continued: "In Italy, unlike Portugal, the problem is not the violation of foreigners' law, but rather the violation of the rights of Italian citizens abroad. This Tajani decree separated families and created classes of citizens, promoting the differentiation between siblings and fifth-class citizens. We will await the new decision from the Italian court."
