Constitutional Court says that lists for Lisboa do Chega, CDS-PP and Nós, Cidadãos! violate parity law
The Constitutional Court ruled this Friday that the parties Chega, CDS-PP and Nós, Cidadãos! presents irregularities related to the law of parity in the lists to the legislative ones by the constituency of Lisbon, giving two days to correct the situation.
The Constitution determines that the agents of the lists to the legislative ones have a period of two days to “correct the respective lists in accordance” with the law of parity, “under penalty of full rejection of them”, referred to the judgment today, to which the Lusa agency had access.
The decision follows an appeal filed by the Alliance party considering that those three parties violated the parity law.
In the case of Chega, whose list is headed by the leader of the party, André Ventura, the assumption of minimum representation of 40% by women is not respected.
Of 53 candidates from Chega por Lisboa, 21 are women (39.62%), therefore not reaching the “minimum injunction”, the Constitutional notes, recalling another ruling that concludes that this figure does not allow for rounding to reach the legally required minimum.
In the case of the Nos, Citizens! and of the CDS-PP, an article of the parity law is at stake which determines that no more than two candidates of the same sex can be affected consecutively.
In the CDS-PP list, headed by the party leader, Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, this article is violated three times (three consecutive female names twice – positions 34, 35 and 36 and 57 , 57th and 59th – and with four consecutive male names – from 40th to 43rd place).
We, Citizens! has four consecutive male names listed by the Lisbon constituency.
Like evaluates legislative take place on January 30th.