The government has until next Thursday to demonstrate its worth in approving important degrees before it is constrained by the constraints of the current management.
The warning came from the President of the Republic. Next Thursday evening, after the Council of Ministers meets, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will issue the decree dismissing the Prime Minister – something that will imply the fall of the entire government.
The dismissal decision implies that the government will come under the current administration – the so-called “Management Government”. And this means, according to Article 186 of the Constitution, that “the government shall limit itself to carrying out acts strictly necessary to ensure the management of public affairs”. Constitutional jurisprudence says these are acts of “indefatigable practice.” Be that as it may, the concept was deliberately placed in an undefined wording in the Constitution to give governments flexibility in its implementation. Legal experts are divided into several interpretations and the Constitutional Court has already issued more than one ruling on this subject. Diogo Freitas do Amaral (1941-2019) has a book on this subject entitled “Management Governments”.
“In principle, the last Council of Ministers will take place on the 7th and therefore the 7th night will be the resignation,” the president said on Saturday, a month after the prime minister submitted his resignation, on the sidelines of a visit to the Food Bank Against Hunger in Lisbon . A little later, he indicated in another statement that the dismissal decision will come into effect “on Friday, December 8”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “the original idea” was to sign the government’s dismissal decision last “Monday or Tuesday”, but since “there were some important votes for the PRR” that “needed to be finalized”, he left the formalization omitted. of the dismissal for next week “think about the PRR”. “This is also why in the Assembly the dissolution, which takes place on the 15th, [de janeiro] was also intended to complete the final preparation of the budget, which is approaching the end of the year,” he added, noting that he also wanted to give Parliament time to “revise the Statutes of the European Union can evaluate”. The President of the Republic explained that one of the conditions for Portugal to receive the next funds from the PRR “was that the statutes were delivered and approved”.
Source: DN
