Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) of Cape Verde, José Landim, said today that he “completely” agrees with the decision of the country’s Constitutional Court (TC), which dismissed the appeal by former deputy Amadeu Oliveira.
“ We understand that the TC decided well and very well in this sense, because that is what we defended ”, replied the PGR, in Praia, when asked after leaving an audience with the President of the Republic, José Maria Neves, to present his greetings New Year’s Eve.
José Landim said that he “ completely” agrees with the decision and recalled that he participated, in December, in the trial session to assess the appeal for concrete inspection of the constitutionality of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ), which confirmed the conviction of the former deputy, to seven years in prison, for helping, as a lawyer, the escape of a client convicted of murder.
According to a summary of the ruling, the advisory judges decided, unanimously, not to declare the unconstitutionality of the rule applied by the STJ, according to which the deputy only has the right to the privileged forum of responding before the collective court of judges in the second instance.
In the pre-trial and Preliminary Contradictory Hearing (ACP) phases, the deputy responds to a single judge, a fact that does not constitute “ any violation of the deputy’s guarantee ” provided for by law.
Among other points, the TC also said that it was unaware of the issue of the unconstitutionality and legality of the National Assembly resolution, which allegedly authorized the arrest of the then deputy elected by the lists of the Independent and Democratic Cape Verdean Union (UCID, opposition), for the São Vicente constituency.
In March 2023, the highest court in Cape Verde’s constitutional jurisdiction turned down an appeal asking for his release.
In November 2022, the Court of Appeal of Barlavento applied a single sentence of seven years of effective imprisonment to Amadeu Oliveira, proving that he had committed the crimes of attacking the rule of law and harming a legal entity.
The Court decided to lose his deputy mandate and Oliveira is prevented from being re-elected or holding any other political position for four years after serving his sentence.
A strong critic of the country’s justice system and alleged perpetrator of the escape from the archipelago of a man convicted of murder, Amadeu Oliveira was detained in São Vicente on July 18, 2021, after being heard in the process.
Two days later, the Court of Appeal of Barlavento imposed preventive detention on the then deputy, elected in April of the same year on the UCID lists, the third political force in parliament, with four terms, having been replaced by party president João Santos Luís .
Oliveira publicly admitted, in parliament, weeks before, that he planned and carried out the escape of the convict, for whom he was a defense lawyer, in a case that earned him several public criticisms. The Week with Lusa
For More News And Analysis About Cape verde Follow Africa-Press
