From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 14 November 2024
- Subject(s):
- Powers and jurisdiction of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Comparative constitutional law
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 Under the One-Party System (1975–90) Socialist-inspired Constitution of 1980 (Silva 109–240), constitutional review was conducted by the National Popular Assembly itself. It had a political nature. Constitutional questions could be raised in concrete cases by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, interested parties and Courts ex officio, after which the latter would trigger the system of control by referral to Parliament prior to the application of a norm, but that rarely happened (Piçarra 216–22; Ramos (2009) 230; Santos 252). 2 The current Constitution of the...
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