Africa-Press – Angola. The Constitutional Court declared the unconstitutionality of several rules of Law no. 13/24, of 29 August, known as the Law on the Crimes of Vandalism of Public Goods and Services, due to violation of principles enshrined in the Constitution.
The decision is contained in Judgment No. 1056/2025, delivered within the scope of Process No. 1204-D/2024, to which Process No. 1208-D/2024 was attached, relating to the successive abstract review of the constitutionality of the aforementioned legal document.
According to the document, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the norms of article 4, paragraphs a) of articles 5 and 6, articles 7, 9 and 10, paragraph 2 of article 13, as well as articles 16, 17 and 19 of Law no. 13/24, for violating the principles of proportionality, human dignity, the rule of law and equal sanctions, in accordance with the combined terms of articles 1, 2, 23, 57 and 65 of the CRA.
The Court also declared the constitutional incompatibility of the norms of articles 7, 13, 14 and 15 of the same law, due to violation of the principle of criminal legality, provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3 of article 65 of the Constitution.
The decision results from requests for inspection presented by the Angolan Bar Association (OAA) and the UNITA Parliamentary Group, which challenged the constitutional conformity of several provisions of the law in question, considering that they do not clearly and precisely define the legal types of crime and the respective penalties.
In the ruling, the Constitutional Court maintains that the lack of normative clarity and the disproportionality of sanctions compromise legal certainty and the foundations of the democratic rule of law, which is why it determined the removal of the aforementioned norms from the legal system.
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