Politics

Portuguese Budget Heads to Constitutional Court

Sent by the president

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The Portuguese president has said that he will send this year's controversial budget to the Constitutional Court.

AnĂ­bal Cavaco Silva said the budget didn't treat citizens fairly, and hit some of them worse than others.

The right-of-centre government has argued that the unprecedented tax increases the budget contains were necessary to meet the terms of the country's eurozone bailout.