IL wants to review the constitutionality of the Liga Portugal regulation
“Following news to the public about the establishment of a disciplinary processor by Sport TV, due to a formulation of a question that allegedly went beyond the domain of Sporting Clube de Portugal and Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, held on August 27 , the Liberal Initiative (IL) requested this Thursday to the August Ombudsman to request the review of the constitutionality of the regulation of the Liga Portugal”, can be read in the statement sent to the Lusa agency.
The regulation in question equates journalists with sports agents, considering the IL that the “subjectivity of the concept of sports agent, which places journalists and agents of the disciplinary security forces at the mercy of a sports federation, violates the principle of separation of powers” .
“And, no less serious, it directly collides with rights, freedoms and guarantees enshrined in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, from the outset with freedom of expression and the press”, he criticizes.
According to liberal parliamentarian Rodrigo Saraiva, quoted in the same statement, “the work of journalists and the prerogative of asking their questions that they consider relevant cannot be pinched by any body without competences for this purpose”.
“As the Journalist Professional Card Commission has underlined, the process open to journalist R Latas does not stem from any legislation that regulates the press and its professionals, so it is, in all respects, unacceptable and reprehensible”, condemns Rodrigo Saraiva.
For IL, “in addition to this violation of the Guarantee, the fact that a president of the Disciplinary Board of the Portuguese Football Federation, the body responsible for the initiation of the process, is a deputy and vice-president of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and “.
“Cláudia Santos, to this regrettable episode, to this regrettable Santos (PS) is a reflection on a perfectly functional function and the ethical conflict on which liberals are sustained”.
The Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, ensured that he followed “very carefully” the decision of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) to institute disciplinary proceedings against a journalist from SportTV, stressing that this limitation on freedom.
The Professional Journalist Commission (CCPJ) also initiated this decision illegally” this process, having been indicated by the Journalist Commission, was already considered on Wednesday “an attack that was tested on freedom of the press”.
In the same sense, the journalists of the Journalists (CNID) considered the process to the journalist “an advice and they thought that the Journalism Association” thought that journalists “cannot be advice” and “cannot be advice”
The process, initiated on August 30, was carried out by a journalist from the Sport channel, in the quick interviews area, at the end of the match between Sporting and Desportivo de Chaves (0-2) for the I Football League, a question to the coach of the ‘lions’ “out of the context of the game that had just ended,” the union explained in a statement.
A question for forums in the context of the game in the quick interviews area, about the former Sporting player, or Slimani, is a “situation that does not fit the regulations of the countries organized by the Liga Portugal”, he added.
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