Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Board of Directors of the Presidency of the Republic is based on the fact that the terms of office of the judges of the Court of Auditors have expired, in order to request the nullity of the report that the Court prepared on the accounts of the Presidency of the Republic.
According to the document to which Expresso das Ilhas had access, the Presidency of the Republic says that the report of the Court of Auditors should be considered null and void because the decision, dated 26 September, “was signed by the Judge Counsellor and the other Judge Counsellors of the same section who remain in office after the expiry of the five-year period from the date on which they were sworn in by the President of the Republic”.
Thus, the Presidency adds, “since it began on 13 November 2018, the term of office of each of the honorable judge counsellors of the Court of Auditors expired at midnight on 13 November 2023”.
Adding that the Court of Auditors is a sovereign body, the Presidency of the Republic claims that this court “cannot, in the exercise of its functions, apply rules that are contrary to the Constitution or the principles enshrined therein, as stipulated in the rule contained in Article 211, paragraph 3 of the Portuguese Constitution”.
“In short and in conclusion, the continued existence of the Court of Auditors’ Advisory Judges, including those who participated in the deliberation whose nullity is alleged, is based on the rule contained in Article 17, paragraph 2” of the law that regulates the composition, competence, procedure and functioning of the Court of Auditors.
However, as the Presidency of the Republic itself emphasizes in the text sent to the Court of Auditors, it is recognized that “the term of office of each judge is independent of the end of the term of office of the other judges, and occurs with the inauguration of the new incumbent”.
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