Foreigners law is not a football game between Marcelo and Government

President of the Republic explains the request for supervision: “Create certainty” in the face of “many different interpretations” about constitutionality.

The President of the Republic said on Tuesday that he requested the preventive of the Constitutional Court of Foreign Law To “create certainty,” in the face of different interpretations of the constitutionality of the diploma.

MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSAwho made statements to television channels next to Monte Gordo beach, in the Algarve, where he is enjoying vacation, said he did not want to directly comment to that of the Constitutional Court, but explained that, with the request for preventive inspection of the law of foreigners, I wanted to “create certainty” before the “many different interpretations” that emerged about the constitutionality of the proposal.

“What was my idea? I said to the parties and the prime minister: it is Create certainty. Not being every court to have a completely different decision (…) now it is clear, ”he said, explaining that it will now be“ easier ”for the courts to decide why, from now on, they must follow the interpretation of the Constitutional Court.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa remembered the “Many different interpretations” arising, for example, of law firms on the constitutionality of the diploma and stressed that its purpose, when asking for the intervention of the Constitutional Court, “It is not being in a soccer game” between President of the Republic and Parliament or the government “to see who wins”.

The head of state also recalled that the decree approving a new legal regime for entry, permanence, departure and removal of foreigners from the national territory covered “very diverse areas”, detailing that “when talking about immigrants” should be considered to diversity of yours origin.

“People think they are some and not others [imigrantes]. For everyone, under different conditions, the problems that arise in the law are placed, ”he added.

The President of the Republic returned the law of foreigners to Parliament, after vetoed it on Friday following the unconstitutionalities detected by the Constitutional Court.

About the 38 immigrants that this week on the Algarve coast from Morocco, the head of state recalled that this is a “Very rare situation”, But he stressed that these are situations that can happen and that the answer that is being given follows the “normal procedures.”