The President of the Republic proposed on Tuesday to rethink the structures, procedures and resources of the justice system with a global approach, which he says requires “at least an implicit, broad consensus of the regime.”
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke at the official opening of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Lisbon.
“Justice in the long run is perhaps incompatible with some kind of organic or procedural or human, financial and material resources intended for a different society, a different economy, a different citizen experience,” the head of state believes.
Highlighting the changes that have taken place in Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza argued that “the most important thing is to look at the whole building of the judiciary and, as far as it is concerned, to discover what no longer fits the completely new challenges of a more open, more internationalized community”, and also, “in counterpoint, the fruit of crises, more dualistic, i.e. less cohesive, more asymmetrical”.
According to the President of the Republic, in order to ensure access to “a collective good called justice without constants and, as it were, inevitable shocking inequalities”, it is necessary to “rethink the general, administrative and fiscal jurisdiction, make the whole system more flexible and adapted to bring its own time to social time” .
“Establishing permanent monitoring mechanisms, stabilizing forms of communication with society, providing resources and, from the outset, human resources that meet the most pressing needs. Executive, this global approach is neither simple nor feasible without at least the implicit broad consensus of the regime,” he added.