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The present Constitution of Portugal - officially the Constitutituion of the Portuguese Republic - was adopted in 1976 after the Carnation Revolution. [1] It was preceded by a number of constitutions including the first one created in 1822 (following the Liberal Revolution of 1820), [2] 1826 (drawn up by King Dom Pedro IV), [3] 1838 (after the Liberal Wars), [4] 1911 (following the 5 October ...
[1] The term "constitutional government" or simply "government" also refers to the team of ministers and its period of management under one prime minister. This concept is similar to an "administration" in the parlance of a presidential republic or to a "collective ministry" in the parlance of some Commonwealth countries.
Politics in Portugal operates as a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Portugal is the head of government, and the President of Portugal is the non-executive head of state which, although it is a somewhat ceremonial figure, [1] has some significant political powers they exercise often. [2]
Allegory of the Constitution of 1822, by Domingos Sequeira. The Portuguese Constitution of 1822 (formally the Political Constitution of the Portuguese Monarchy) (Portuguese: Constituição Política da Monarquia Portuguesa) approved on 23 September 1822 was the first Portuguese constitution, marking an attempt to end absolutism and introduce a constitutional monarchy. [1]
The Code adopted the German classification of areas of Civil Law, following the BGB, and is divided into 5 main parts (or "books"): . the General Part (Parte Geral), Sections 1 through 396, comprising regulations that have effect on all the other four parts and on Private Law in general, such as sources of law, legal interpretation, personhood, legal capacity, emancipation of minors ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 16 December 1934, [1] the first following the establishment of the one-party state known as the Estado Novo.The National Union was the only party to contest the elections, and no opposition candidates were allowed to run. [2]
The XXIII Constitutional Government of Portugal (Portuguese: XXIII Governo Constitucional de Portugal) was the 23rd government of the Third Portuguese Republic under the current Constitution, and had António Costa as the Prime Minister, in his third consecutive term.
The International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (Spanish: Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas, FIIAPP) is a public sector foundation under the Spanish state and a member institution of Cooperación Española, the Spanish government cooperation agency. [1]