ARTICLE · 16 OCTOBER 2013

The Constitucional Decision On The 2013 State Budget

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On the 2nd of January 2013, the President of the Republic of Portugal requested the assessment of the Constitutional Court regarding three articles of the 2013 State Budget Law (Law n. 66-B/2012, of 31 December).

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Rogério Fernandes Ferreira

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I. Introduction

On the 2nd of January 2013, the President of the Republic of Portugal requested the assessment of the Constitutional Court regarding three articles of the 2013 State Budget Law (Law n. 66-B/2012, of 31 December).

The President questioned, in particular, the article regarding the suspension of the holiday allowance, or equivalent, paid to civil servants, the article regarding the suspension of the holiday allowance paid to pensioners and the article regarding the imposition of an extraordinary contribution of solidarity to pensioners. Identical assessment requests were submitted by fifty parliament representatives of the Socialist Party, twenty four parliament representatives of the Communist Party, Left Block and Green Party and, except for the article regarding the holiday allowance, by the Portuguese Ombudsman.

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