The Constitutional Court, which Chega says should cease to exist, yesterday rejected two appeals filed to derail Chega’s candidacy for Madeira’s regional elections, citing matters that “extend to the electoral process”.
The National Democratic Alternative (ADN), which demanded the annulment of the Chega list on the basis of the annulment, by the TC, of the party’s V National Convention, believed that the announced decision constitutes a poor rule of law and leaves see how that party is “protected from the system”.
“We deplore the state of (in)justice we have in Portugal, where anyone who finds themselves in an illegal situation – and it is not the ADN party saying so, but the Constitutional Court – can benefit from the worst that it system offers. and goes to elections,” the party says.
For ADN, the TC’s decision is identical to what happened with domestic violence crimes before it was considered a public crime.
“In other words, crime existed, people knew who the criminal was, the victim suffered and sometimes even died, but no one could file a complaint to save the victim, because only the victim could do that,” he laments.
The ADN underlines that “the Constitutional Court deliberated in the same way that many of the judges of the past deliberated against the victims and in some cases even blamed the victim for the crimes they had suffered”. In this case, he adds, “the victim is Portuguese democracy”.
The president of the regional government of Madeira labeled the decisions of the Constitutional Court as “incomprehensible”.
Chega’s leader, in response to the TC’s decision, accused the PS and PSD of a “dangerous and pathetic line of silence” against the attempt to “beat the party in Madeira at the secretariat”.
According to Ventura, the party received this decision “naturally”, as “any other decision would seriously jeopardize democracy” because it would be unprecedented “to remove a party from the ballot.”
Ventura promised not to forget what happened and stressed the need for “independent constitutional justice” and “deep reform” in this area.
On Sunday, Chega vice-president António Tânger Correa defended that the Constitutional Court is only an instrument for party play between PS and PSD, so it is not necessary and should be replaced by an “impartial institution”.
“There is no need for a Constitutional Court in Portugal, on the contrary. An impartial institution is needed, for example a branch of the Supreme Court,” he defended.
And he went even further by saying that “the street must be entered. The Portuguese people need to understand what the TC is, which is the twin brother of the Council of the Revolution, which has been extinguished,” he claimed, insisting that “Contrary to what people think, that’s a kind of Supreme Court, but that’s it not. It is just an instrument of party play circulating between two parties, the PS and the PSD, with very strong support from the PCP.”
Today’s decision by the TC, on the day of the deadline for publishing the final lists for the September 24 elections, reaffirms the 13 candidacies validated by the Madeira District Judicial Court.
Source: DN
