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Attorney General Challenges Parliament to Change Law on Demonstrations

Portugal’s Attorney General has called on parliament today to review the 1974 legislation governing the right to demonstrate, declining to refer the law to the Constitutional Court (TC) for review.

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Amadeu Guerra refused to request the supervision of this decree-law from the Constitutional Court, arguing that the parliament is the competent body to reflect on the situation

·Paço de Arcos, Portugal
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"The legislative amendments cannot go to the taste of the concrete facts. We have to mature this situation and I am convinced that the entity competent for this, which is the parliament, will mature and think about it. [...] It is a competence of the parliament and the parliament should do so," Amadeu Guerra said, on the margins of a class on asset recovery, in the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon.

·Lisboa, Portugal
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Amadeu Guerra also argued that it does not see "in clear terms that it is necessary" to ask the Constitutional Court to monitor the constitutionality of the diploma in question

The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) today challenged the Assembly of the Republic to review the diploma of 1974 that regulates the right of demonstration, rejecting the request for the supervision of this decree-law to the Constitutional Court (TC). The legislative amendments cannot go to the taste of the concrete facts. We have to mature this situation and I am convinced that the competent entity for this, which is the parliament, will m…

Rejects the Constitutional Court for the time being

·Portugal
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Noticias ao Minuto broke the news in Portugal on Monday, October 26, 2026.
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