The Government Council on Thursday extended the state of health emergency until February 28, 2022.
Under current rules, citizens must use a COVID-19 health pass to access public spaces including restaurants, cinemas, and other venues.
Parliamentary groups had sought to amend a legal text that allows the government to take covid-19 related decisions without parliamentary scrutiny.
The proposed law seeks to add a provision to Decree-Law 2.20.292 that would restrict the procedural steps taken by the government to enforce covid-19 related decisions.
The move comes amid wider criticism of the government’s resort to MAP dispatches and press statements to announce measures, including curfews and the vaccine pass.
The amendment, tabled by the socialist group seeks to render government decrees as the single legitimate means of adopting decisions under the state of a health emergency.
While the 2011 constitution grants the government the ability to adopt exceptional measures by decree, they must be ratified by Parliament ahead of entry into force.
Decisions made to contain the virus “does not preclude adherence to the provisions of the constitution that prevent restricting the freedom of movement of people,” wrote the parliamentary group in the Introductory Note to the proposed law.
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