The Portuguese Parliament has approved again, and without amendment, the text of the law on medically assisted dying on which the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, had vetoed on April 19. Since March 2021, when the Constitutional Court rejected the first legislative text on euthanasia as "excessively indeterminate" in definition, the law has been rejected four times in all: twice by constitutional judges and twice by the President of the Republic. The last one, in fact, less than a month ago. This time, however, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will no longer be able to reject it and has eight days to promulgate it.
There remains the possibility that opposition MPs will seek yet another opinion from the Court. Voting against, in fact, there is a large part of the main center-right opposition party, the Social Democrats, along with the far-right party Chega, the Communist Party and four socialist deputies. The Socialist Party, Liberal Initiative, Left Bloc, a handful of Social Democratic deputies and the sole deputies of the animal rights party Pan and the left-wing party Livre voted in favour.