The Portuguese Parliament acknowledges the draft resolution condemning the "Adjustment Act

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  • February 11, 2017
The Portuguese Parliament acknowledges the draft resolution condemning the "Adjustment Act

   The Portuguese parliament voted on Friday evening, in favor of a draft resolution condemning the “Adjustment Act” passed by the Israeli Knesset recently.
    The project presented by the ruling Socialist Party in Portugal, which provided for the “condemnation of the adoption of the Knesset Law which legitimize housing construction in existing settlements in the occupied areas of the West Bank” was acknowledged.
And voted in favor of the draft resolution: the ruling Socialist Party and the Left Bloc, the Communist Party, and the Green Party, the opposition parties abstained from voting (Social Democratic Party, the Christian People’s) in addition to one deputy from the Socialist Party

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