Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa vetoed the law Determining the measures that schools should implement Guaranteeing students’ right to self-determine their gender identity in schools.
In a statement published on its website, the Portuguese Presidency stated that it rejected the choice of a neutral name because it “considers that the decree does not guarantee a balance in terms of the fundamental principle of personal freedom.” Similarly, the measures that schools had to adopt to implement the law providing for gender self-determination “do not adequately respect the roles of parents, guardians, legal representatives and associations formed by them and in different age-based situations”.
With this, Sent the texts to the Parliament again “To think of bringing more realism to a subject in which it is of little value to affirm principles that conflict with them, rather than to win people, families and schools to their cause because of their abstract geometry, in what today is considered a school of an increasingly multicultural character in Portugal”.
After the veto, parent associations and school principals stated the following: “we hope to be heard in a future debate” problem“. The texts were objected to by the National Confederation of Parents’ Associations (Confap) and the Association of National Groups and Directors of Public Schools (ANDAEP), Lusa news agency reported.
The far-right Chega party thanked Rebelo de Sousa for “the decisive role he played in this process”, stating that Rebelo de Sousa “did a good job by returning this law to the Parliament at a time when the Socialist Party no longer had the majority”. “By preserving fundamental values,” the President said.