Constitutional Court of Portugal

20 Prior review: Normative legislative acts – 4 Local referenda – 12 (2 interlocutory decisions) Ex post facto review – 11 Concrete review: Summary decisions – 605 Decisions in conference – 236 Decisions in chamber – 122 Challenges (Art. 77) – 80 Interlocutory decisions – 119 Electoral matters * – 8 Political parties ** – 12 (3 interlocutory decisions) Political officeholders’ declarations of assets and income – 2 Financing of political parties and election campaigns – 13 (6 interlocutory decisions) * Coalitions, electoral disputes and electoral administrative disputes ** Registration and abolition of political parties and challenges against decisions by party organs 236 YEAR 2012 TOTAL = 1224 12 12 4 2 13 11 8 605 119 80 122 Statistic s RULINGS AND DECISIONS – 2012 On average, the Constitutional Court hands down more than 1,000 decisions each year. As we can see, the type of review the Court is most often asked to conduct is the concrete review. Other statistics on the Constitutional Court’s procedural work can be found on the Court’s website at: www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/en/tribunal-estatisticas.html