Assembly of the Republic will hear association about citizens born in Portugal who are unable to acquire nationality – Politics
This Wednesday, parliament was unanimously awaiting the hearing, proposed by the PCP, of the cultural association ‘Moinho da Juventude’ to obtain clarification on citizens born in Portugal who are unable to acquire Portuguese nationality.
This request was approved this Wednesday by the parliamentary committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees and had the favorable vote of all the parties present.
“We all know that there are citizens born in Portugal to parents who were already in Portugal at the time of birth and who live here, some reaching the age of 40 or so years – I was able to meet one of these cases – who have no nationality. They have no nationality. nationality but they also don’t have any documents, because their situation is completely irregular”, stressed the communist deputy Alma Rivera in the presentation of the text.
The PCP deputy said that these people “are in a situation of increased vulnerability” and that it is important “to understand why and what is limiting and what is preventing these situations from being circumvented”.
In the application, the communists refer that “there is an incalculable number of citizens who were born in Portugal, but for the most varied reasons, including the fact that the parents never managed to regularize the families before their birth or did not have the capacity or way to reunite all documents that prove it, are not recognized as Portuguese citizens”.
For the PS, deputy Pedro Delgado Alves welcomed the presentation of the application and admitted that other entities can be heard on the subject.
“Extension work [da lei da nacionalidade], both in 2018 and 2020, was in the sense of trying to avoid as much as possible that these people live in this situation of not having access, which from the outset is their nationality, which is often their original nationality. If we still have something to correct, I think it’s a good opportunity to do it now”, he defended.
The socialist underlined that the changes to the nationality law in the two years referred to, sought to eliminate as much as possible situations “which in all respects correspond to people whose connection to the national community is to the Portuguese national community, who were born here and resided here for many years”.
Mónica Quintela, from the PSD, also welcomed the submission of the application and stressed that “it is necessary to see the gaps that will need to be filled” in this law.
The parliamentary leader of Chega, Pedro Pinto, and the deputy of the Liberal Initiative (IL) Patrícia Gilvaz also considered this hearing pertinent.
For Livre, the sole deputy Rui Tavares also warned of cases of people who “due to having served [prisional] cannot have access to nationality”, leaving him in a “situation of limbo that does not even help his reintegration”.