# What's the potential impact of the 2025 Portuguese election on the Golden Visa program and pathway to citizenship? **URL:** \ **Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\ **Tags:** malta, portugal, golden-visa, legal-q-and-a\ **Created:** [June 3, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816 "2025-06-03T20:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1700
**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816/1700 "2025-11-14T08:43:09Z")
So to summarise the whirlwind of PT Nationality Law news overnight… > [SIC NOTÍCIAS 13-Nov 19:23](https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/politica/2025-11-13-ps-decide-avancar-com-envio-da-lei-da-nacionalidade-para-o-tribunal-constitucional-97d83414) > > - **Socialist Party (PS) wants _preventive_ TC review (before promulgation)**… a constitutional prerogative that has [only ever] been used twice… In the case of organic laws, a preliminary review of constitutionality can be requested by the Prime Minister **or by one-fifth of the deputies - 46 out of 230.** [PS holds 58 deputies] > [PÚBLICO 13-Nov 19:11/updated 20:21](https://www.publico.pt/2025/11/13/politica/noticia/ps-vai-levar-lei-nacionalidade-tribunal-constitucional-2154547) > > - the Socialist parliamentary group is **preparing the request to send to the Palácio Ratton [the TC** - thanks Chris for spotting that Google Translate boo-boo], **which will then have 25 days to issue a decision.** The Socialist Party deputies have already been notified of the necessary procedure – in practice, their signatures – since at least 46 signatories are required, and **other parties that also voted against (Livre, PCP, Bloco and PAN) will not be invited to join.** > [IMI Daily 13-Nov](https://www.imidaily.com/europe/portugals-socialists-bypass-president-send-citizenship-law-to-constitutional-court/) > > - [PS] needs 46 signatures to trigger the mechanism and **plans to formalize the request next week,** with only Socialist deputies signing. > - **The Constitutional Court has no fixed deadline for preventive review rulings** [note PÚBLICO above thinks it’s 25 days?], though such cases typically proceed faster than standard constitutional challenges. The law remains suspended throughout the review process and cannot enter into force until judges issue their determination. > > [I don’t know if IMI is taking the following from last night’s PS intervention, or their (admittedly mercurial) objections over the past month or so. But hopefully [Sr. Miranda’s constitutional misgivings](https://www.imidaily.com/europe/jorge-miranda-portugals-citizenship-overhaul-unconstitutional-creates-diachronic-inequality/) are finally getting serious attention from those with our futures in their hands?] > > - **The Socialists identified practical cases illustrating legal uncertainty created by the new law.** These cases avoid invoking positive discrimination, favoring CPLP and EU citizens who need seven years of residence rather than ten for other nationalities. The approved amendments formalize that the citizenship clock starts only when authorities grant a residence permit, not at application initiation. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa says he needs to wait for that review: > [SIC NOTÍCIAS 13-Nov 23:05](https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/politica/2025-11-13-video-lei-da-nacionalidade-marcelo-vai-aguardar-decisao-do-tribunal-constitucional-apos-pedido-de-fiscalizacao-do-ps-91c45d7f) > > - "And now the President’s role, in relation to this law, is to **wait for the Constitutional Court, at the request of that number of deputies… to schedule this matter, distribute it, pronounce on the matter, and then send it to the President of the Republic,"** he stated. > - "If [the Constitutional Court] finds it unconstitutional, the President of the Republic is obliged to veto it. **If it does not find it unconstitutional, the President of the Republic then has a period to, if necessary, politically reconsider the law,"** > - “I just arrived from Angola [50th anniversary of independence from PT] and, therefore, I had not yet reviewed either of the decrees. And what I know is what I have just learned from the media.” > - I was going to review the diplomas in the coming days; there were eight days for that. Obviously, I will review the diplomas, but at this moment I have nothing more to say, except that I became aware—I didn’t know, as nobody knew—of this initiative from the Socialist Party," --- _[View the full topic](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/whats-the-potential-impact-of-the-2025-portuguese-election-on-the-golden-visa-program-and-pathway-to-citizenship/71816)._