Foreigners Law rejected by the Constitutional Court

The judges at Palácio Ratton found unconstitutionalities in some of the rules of the law on foreigners, which had raised doubts in the President of the Republic, who sent the diploma to the Constitutional Court, as a matter of preventive supervision, as a matter of urgency.

The decision was read by reporting judge Joana Fernandes Costa, in the Public Acts Room.

"When considering this draft law, the TC ruled that several rules were unconstitutional," he stated, continuing with the rules declared unconstitutional by the majority of judges.

One of the rules that the majority of judges, nine to five, considered to be against the Constitution concerns family reunification, a mechanism that the Government restricted in the proposed law and which was one of the most controversial changes.

See the Constitutional Court's decision in full here

The President of the Republic, vocally critical of the Government's proposal, will now return the diploma to Parliament without promulgating it .

It should be noted that Nascer do SOL had already reported that AD and Chega, the parties that approved the law on July 16 in the AR, were ready to respond to the Constitutional Court's decision by making some adjustments to the law.

AD and Chega ready to respond to the TC