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- Portugal's low wages: modern work or modern slavery?Publication . Rodrigues, Carlos Augusto; Carvalho Campina, Ana Cláudia; Yayar, Rüştü; Erol, Yücel; Şahin, MetehanBackground: Article 59 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CRP) establishes in paragraph 1(a) that “all workers have the right to remuneration for their work in such a way as to guarantee a dignified existence”. This is in line with what was established in the constitution of the International Labor Office in 1919, which stipulated in article 427(3) that “the payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country”, which is also in line with article 23(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The purpose of our work is to analyze Portuguese statistical data and understand whether workers receive a wage that guarantees them a decent existence, and thus understand whether the CRP and international treaties are complied with, i.e. whether all workers have a decent existence. Methods: In this scientific research, study, analysis, and production for this article we applied a strategic qualitative methodology under a "grounded theory" underneath the inductive logic from collected data. Results: The statistics we have collected show that millions of workers do not receive a salary that guarantees them a decent existence. Conclusions: Finally, we conclude that Portugal has not yet fulfilled its Social Contract and is in violation of the ILO, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights
- Useless votes: the dictatorship of the big parties in Portuguese democracyPublication . Carvalho Campina, Ana Cláudia; Rodrigues, Carlos AugustoAccording to Portuguese legal order and as stated in the last Report of Freedom House 2024, Portugal is “a stable parliamentary democracy with a multiparty political system”, reinforcing that “civil liberties are generally protected.” However, across all the elections during the democratic regime along the last 50 year, there is a kind of dictatorship of the big parties in Portuguese democracy due the useless votes in each election. The principal reason is due the Hondt Method that presents different disadvantages, mainly linked to smaller parties and constituencies and the representativeness of constituencies. Hondt, the most used electoral method applied in the world, is a mathematic model that convert votes to mandates however the small parties and electorates representation are seriously affected, being translated in proportional application but not proportionally. In March 2024 from the Legislatives Elections there were 673.382 valid votes that didn´t elected representatives, what is serious and should be studied for legal and political re-action, “Democracy in the world” Report 2023 state that “Portugal fell from liberal to electoral democracy” but it is not a full democracy. The Portuguese Electoral Law for the Portuguese Assembly needs changes, probably with Compensatory constituencies protecting small parties and valuating all electors.