PSD, CDS and PCP voted against, ENP had no vote and PS and BE voted in favour of PAN. When presenting the project in June of last year, PAN argued that “the vast majority of municipalities in Portugal establish through their own regulations a ban on feeding animals on public roads, ignoring any relevant circumstances, such as the colonies of the controlled by municipal sterilisation programmes.”


PAN argues that “it does not make sense for the state to invest in sterilisation and treatment of animals while determining that they should be left to die of hunger”


The party stressed that “it is not morally defensible, to command a sensitive and compassionate population to abstain from feeding an animal, calling into question one of the five basic freedoms of animal welfare: Hunger and thirst.”