The President of the Republic has already used the political veto 36 times, 11 of which in 2023, after today using this power in relation to two more parliamentary decrees on professional orders.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today vetoed changes to the Statute of the Order of Lawyers and Executors, as well as to the legal regime for the actions of lawyers and advocates.
In seven years and nine months as head of state, since March 2016, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has vetoed most parliamentary laws, a total of 30 decrees, including today.
Last week it vetoed changes to the statutes of engineers, architects, nurses, lawyers, doctors and now barristers and barristers, as well as the legal regime for lawyers and barristers – seven decrees out of a package of 21 that parliament passed. approved on October 13 by votes for PS.
These vetoes are applied approximately one month before the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic, which must be issued by decree of the President of the Republic on January 15, at a time when early adoption of the law is announced on March 10, and the Government is limited to administrative acts. after the resignation of the prime minister.
According to the Constitution, in the presence of a political veto, the Assembly of the Republic can confirm the vote of the absolute majority of the deputies currently in power – 116 out of 230, in which case the President of the Republic will have to publish the diploma.
Earlier, on October 27, the head of state vetoed the decree-law regulating the reprivatization of TAP. This was the sixth time he had exercised this power in relation to government legislation.
A year after his election in the 2016 presidential elections, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa described himself as a president of the republic who does not turn to the Constitutional Court as “a kind of protection” but exercises a political veto “without any complex.” , in the face of strong differences.
With today’s decisions, he has used the political veto 36 times: three times in 2016, two in 2017, six in 2018, five in 2019, six in 2020, three times in 2021 and 11 in 2023.
In addition, he vetoed five decrees due to their unconstitutionality, declared by the Constitutional Court.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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