Portugal’s Constitutional Court (TC) has ruled Monday against a new version — the third — of the law to decriminalize assisted dying in a narrow vote of seven judges to six.
The TC’s opinion was issued in response to a request for preventive supervision made by the Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, according to the newspaper ‘Diário de Notícias’. The head of state must now return the bill to the Assembly of the Republic without promulgating it.
This is the second time that the TC has ruled on the norm after in February 2021 the president requested the court’s opinion.
It is the third version of the rule approved by the Portuguese Assembly after Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa rejected a first attempt for lack of precision in the concepts used.
Rebelo de Sousa referred the third version to the TC after indicating that, in his opinion, «conceptual vagueness» persisted and emphasizing the need for «legal certainty».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
