Foreigners Law: Marcelo passes the ball to the Constitutional Court
For the Head of State, it is "essential" to guarantee the legal security of the legislation to avoid "potential differential and discriminatory treatment." He criticized the rushed legislative process.
The new Foreigners Law, approved in fast-track mode in Parliament, has become a case in point of the popular thesis that haste makes waste, with the President of the Republic submitting the legislation for “urgent” consideration by the Constitutional Court (TC). After holding meetings with the parties that sought to discuss the issue in Belém (Livre, PCP, Bloco de Esquerda, and Chega, with opposing views), Marcelo expressed doubts about the rules governing the right to family reunification and the conditions for exercising it, the timeframe for reviewing applications by the Agency for Integration, Migration, and Asylum (AIMA), and the right to appeal.
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