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The current Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, has filed an injunction following the dissemination of posters by Chega associating him with José Sócrates. The case is being brought on an individual basis, claiming that these billboards are damaging to him as a ‘citizen, husband and father’ and he is asking the District Court of Lisbon to order Chega to remove all the posters throughout the country within five days. Speaking to the Público newspaper, Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão, Senior Associate in the Litigation & Arbitration practice at CCA Law Firm, explains what the law says about these cases.
For the CCA Senior Associate, ‘the European Court of Human Rights has been giving greater protection to freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the right to criticise public figures and national case law has followed suit, but she believes that the judge may consider that the right to protection of good name has been ‘affected’.
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