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Judgment No. 556/2019

Merits not heard: res judicata
Date
19 June 2019
Case
650-B/2018
Formation
Plenary
Rapporteur
Américo Maria de Morais Garcia
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Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.

The operative part of this judgment is handwritten in the official PDF (page 5). The Portuguese page shows an unofficial transcription.

SummaryUnofficial

An FNLA member challenged the party's 2nd Extraordinary Congress, held in Huambo in June 2018. The party raised lis pendens. The Court held that the matter had already been decided in Judgment No. 543/2019, which invalidated that congress on identical grounds, so that res judicata applied and, in line with the non bis in idem principle and legal certainty, no new decision could be issued.

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Decision

Merits not heard: res judicata

Type of proceedings

Political parties and coalitions (Processo Relativo a Partidos Políticos e Coligações)

Full text

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