The group of judges of the Constitutional Court (TC) considered that there is a “significant concentration of powers in the figure of the president of the party”, André Ventura, for which it decided fail the Chega Statutes, once again. The ruling to which Expresso had access also mentions that the TC made it impossible for the militants to be sanctioned for “insubordination.”
This advance of the TC of the statutes approved in the Congress of Viseu, in November of last year, forces the realization of a new national meeting to elaborate and approve new statutes. This story was repeated, however, last year, when in September the Constitutional Court rejected the statutes approved at the Évora convention.
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However, considered the TC, the “concentration of powers” in André Ventura would lead to him being able to “hold a very wide range of powers.” Beyond this point, the issue of insubordination did not convince the judging panel. Is that, in accordance with the statutes, in case of insubordination, the immediate suspension or termination of the member in question or the national body — proposed by the board or by André Ventura — was allowed. However, this definition, for the TC, is “a serious obstacle to the internal democracy of the party, and therefore, the registration of the statutes cannot be admitted, given their content.”
“Statutory regulations of this nature cannot be accepted, which open the door to large-scale sanctioning interventions, without the militants knowing exactly, and in advance, what behaviors are or are not prohibited by their militancy,” he said. CT.
Source: Observadora
