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Presidential aides only ones who can take things further after Supreme Court decision

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The decision to take things further now lies with those directly impacts, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Thursday after the supreme court struck down a claim by President Nicos Anastasiades to change some terms of the budget law so four of his appointees would get civil service positions.

“The supreme court’s reasoning did not examine the essential rights of those affected and by extension the crux of the case,” Pelekanos said.

The Republic’s legal service said on Thursday that with this suit – filed under Art. 139 of the Constitution – the appellant (Anastasiades) took recourse to the supreme court against specific provisions of the 2022 budget law, that according to the suit, clash with the Republic’s Constitution and EU law.

More specifically, the president’s legal recourse sought to overrule an amendment on the approved 2022 budget that said advisors and associates employed by the President of the Republic, ministers and other officials ends with their time in office.

The Supreme Court, with a majority decision, backed layers for the House that said Anastasiades could not use Art. 139 against said law’s provisions after he himself signed them and made this action public, thus assuring their constitutionality.

“It is a perfectly respected decision…should be noted that the President’s reasoning when he signed the budget was to not endanger the state’s finances…the priority was to move forward with the budget so as not to deprive the state of one,” Pelekanos added.

The Republic’s legal service, moreover, also said that the supreme court did not examine the crux of the case, but rather focused on the fact that the retrospective partial questioning of the law at hand exceeds the limits of the President’s authority.

In a scathing response to the decision, Akel said on Thursday that “it is revealing that the rulers clashed with the House and the Audit service and went all the way to the Supreme Court in order to legitimise provocative special favours.”

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