This diploma was approved with the favorable votes of all parties, except Chega and PCP who abstained.

The proposed law establishes the illicit acts, and respective disciplinary regime, associated with “unsportsmanlike behavior, contrary to the values ​​of truth, loyalty and correction and also susceptible to fraudulently altering the results of the competition”.

Among the measures it enshrines, it is planned to create a platform for monitoring the manipulation of evidence, with experts appointed by the Attorney General's Office, the Judiciary Police, the Portuguese Olympic Committee and the Portuguese Football Federation, among others, delivering coordination with the director of the PJ's anti-corruption unit.

In the debate that preceded this vote, the Secretary of State for Youth and Sports said that this platform serves to respond to “one of the biggest threats to the integrity of sports competitions”, referring to the “manipulation of results through bets and bettors”, recalling both the “Double Game” process in the II Professional Football League, or the recent scandal of illegal betting in Italian football.

The PS, through the voice of Paulo Correia, defended the merits of this proposal, as it is “imperative that security forces have tools to combat those who distort sport”.

The new regime is “a kind of world-class goalkeeper, a Rui Patrício who aims to prevent agents from distorting sporting competitions, criminal agents from scoring goals in Portugal's goal. The Government is on the front line in this relentless fight against corruption in sport,” he said.

For the PSD, deputy Paula Cardoso considered “the fight against corruption in sport” crucial, but defended the need to improve the diploma in terms of specialty, warning that there are concepts “difficult to interpret” that need to be clarified, under penalty of if it becomes “dependent on any interpretative VAR [video referee]”.

IL deputy Patrícia Gilvaz praised the proposal for having “new types of legal crime”, but questioned whether there would be any overlap with crimes already foreseen, such as “passive and active corruption in the private sector”, and argued that, in addition Before legislating, the Government must protect and “guarantee that the justice system works”.

In turn, PCP deputy Alma Rivera considered that the creation of this regime has “fundamental and fair objectives”, but said she had doubts about “some technical aspects” and asked if the new platform would not create “more bureaucracy”, since there are already “legal mechanisms and competent entities for investigation and complaints”.

For BE, deputy Joana Mortágua said that, in addition to acting on the sporting phenomenon, we must also act “on the economic system”, warning that sport is “increasingly invaded by financial interests”, “more or less obscure ”.

In the votes, a bill that allows Olympic, Paralympic and high-performance athletes to enjoy, after the end of their sporting careers, a system of employment quotas and conditions was also approved in general, with only the PCP abstaining.

A PAN bill was also approved to enshrine harassment as a disciplinary offense in the legal regime of sports federations.

Conversely, a draft resolution from Chega was rejected, which recommended that the Government “ensure the freedom of thought of all highly competitive athletes” and another from PAN that recognised National Paralympic Athlete Day on September 26th.