The lawyer António Garcia Pereira submitted to the Constitutional Court a request for the dissolution of the Chega party, accusing it of violating the Constitution and of presenting irregularities in its governing bodies. The petition aims to ban the party and classify it as fascist.
The judge of the Constitutional Court Maria Benedita Urbano considered it "very difficult" to ban a political party and proceed with that classification. The magistrate also recalled that some decisions of the Constitutional Court are not always respected, which raises questions about the effectiveness of such a decision.
The case was discussed within the framework of a judicial impugnation action of the party's accounting, which took place at the Constitutional Court. The judge highlighted the practical and political difficulties associated with a measure as extreme as the dissolution of a party.
