Lawyer Paulo Cardinal, who has served for more than 25 years in the Legislative Assembly (AL), said that lawmakers have been losing legislative capacity since the handover in 1999.
The legislators were “barred from presenting bills on certain matters” due to amendments to the House Rules, Cardinal told Lusa news agency yesterday on the sidelines of the launching of his latest book, “Lessons on Legislative Procedure in the Parliamentary Law of Macau.”
The procedures that were in force during the Portuguese administration had been replaced and amended thereafter, explained Cardinal who is currently teaching law at university level.
Paulo Cardinal’s dismissal last year from the AL was seen by the European Union in May as a “sudden decision that raised civil society concerns about growing efforts to put aside foreign expertise.” The EU comments also refer to his former colleague at the AL, Paulo Taipa, now a member of Lisbon’s government in charge of gambling legislation.
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