Portuguese court rejects dismissal of officials

 The Constitutional Court of Portugal rejected a measure of the government of Pedro Passos Coelho seeking easier to fire officials. According to the Constitutional reform violated the principle of job security. It was the country's president, Anibal Silva Dug (bottom photo), who commissioned this court to revise the law.

The Portuguese Constitutional Court has already rejected earlier this year other measures designed by the government of Passos Coehlo (front in photo) to combat the crisis, including that anticipated cuts in public wages and pensions.

Portugal In 2011 he was awarded an international aid package of 78,000 million Euros under conditions. The Portuguese government agreed to change to follow a course of reforms and austerity measures. The Iberian country is in its third year of recession, with an unemployment rate above 18 percent.