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There are several “unconstitutional” norms in the Nationality Law, declares the Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court (TC) declared this Monday unconstitutional norms of the parliamentary decree that reviews the Nationality Law and another that creates the loss of nationality as an additional penalty in the Penal Code.
In the public reading of these decisions, at Palácio Ratton, in Lisbon, it was announced that there was unanimity regarding three of the four standards of the decree that reviews the Nationality Law declared unconstitutional, as well as the rules of the decree that creates loss of nationality as an additional penalty.
This Monday, the TC also approved two rulings on these decrees, in response to two requests for preventive inspection of constitutionality by 50 PS deputies on November 19.
The parliamentary decree that reviews the Nationality Law and another that amends the Penal Code to include the loss of nationality as an additional penalty, both originating in a law proposal from the PSD/CDS-PP Government, were on October 28, with 157 votes in favorof PSD, Chega, IL, CDS-PP and JPP, e 64 votes againstof PS, Livre, PCP, BE e PAN.
The majority with which they were approved, greater than two thirds of the deputies, allows their eventual confirmation, even in the face of unconstitutionalities declared by the TC, in accordance with the Constitution.
