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The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has previously been critical of the changes to the Foreign Law, said on Sunday, “it is for the story that there was a majority that wanted to change it,” which “will be judged due to it.”
“What matters” in relation to the new law of foreigners, which amends the legal regime of entry, permanence, departure and removal of foreigners from the national territory, “is being sure about the right to change, and this is clarified with the intervention of the Constitutional Court,” said the President of the Republic this Sunday, MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA.
The head of state, who for the Constitutional Court the decree approved in Parliament by the PSD, arrives and CDS-PP, said that reserved more comments about what you will do after the TC decision.
However, he stressed Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who in relation to the changes to the law, which “seem to restrict, disproportionately and unevenly, the principle of family union,” he said “Stay for history that there was a majority that I wanted these solutions and will be judged by it“.
The president spoke to journalists on the fringes of a visit to the teleport of Santa Maria, in the Azores, after being questioned about what will do If the Constitutional Court does not agree with doubts about the new Foreigners Law that made it send the diploma to the Ratton Palace.
“Regarding the political debate, I will think about it soon afterI will ponder if yes or it is not worth it, for the sake of personal affirmation, to put a political obstacle to the law for three weeks, or for 15 days, knowing that it will be approved on the return of the mail. Or if it is not possible to do the same in another waywhich is to say ‘I promulgo, but I disagree politically‘”Said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Marcelo said he also had no “major political doubts that are not about legal issues raised” and that he needs, to decide what he will do later, “realize if the constitutional considers that the law shocks very with the essential ideas of the Constitution or not shocking“.
The President of the Republic also explained that “by privileging the trip to the Constitutional Court, did not follow, at the outset, the path of the political veto”And that considers“more useful to know if there is reason to have doubts of constitutionalitybecause “it is better to prevent reducing”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa decided to request the Constitutional Court the preventive inspection of the recent amendments to, approved by Parliament on July 16.
The President of the Republic explained that 4 changes to the law raised doubtsespecially with regard to the new limitations on family regrouping and decision deadlines imposed on the agency for integration, migrations and asylum.
