The Constitutional Court (TC) on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of the parliamentary decree decriminalizing synthetic drugs and creating a new distinction between trade and consumption, following the request for preemptive abstract scrutiny from the president of the republic.
During the public reading at the Ratton Palace in Lisbon, Judge Carlos Medeiros Carvalho announced that the “TC had unanimously decided not to rule on the unconstitutionality” of the regulatory norms of the decree approved by the General Assembly of the Republic on July 19 .
The explanation of the decision was endorsed by the President of the TC, José João Abrantes, “under the understanding that, in view of the duty of prior hearing (…), the case does not arise as issues concerning the Autonomous Regions “, as Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had justified the shipment with the “lack of consultation” with the government authorities of the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and the Azores.
Source: DN
