LISBON - Portugal’s Azores Islands, some 1,400 km from the Portuguese coast, breached the national constitution by forcing air passengers to the popular tourist destination to quarantine for 14 days, the country’s Constitutional Court has ruled.
“The competence to legislate on rights, freedom and guarantees lies with the parliament, or the government - and only with those two sovereign bodies,” the court ruled. The Constitutional Court’s July 30 ruling, made public on Wednesday, came after a man launched a legal appeal over having to quarantine for two weeks in a hotel in Sao Miguel, the Azores’ biggest island.
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