LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's president has received legal advice that the 2014 budget does not infringe the constitution and is not planning to send the hotly contested document to the constitutional court as he did last year, a presidential spokesman said on Thursday.
The court is still likely to scrutinise some of the budget's cuts anyway in what may complicate government plans to exit the country's international bailout this year. But the centre-right administration at least won some new support from the president's office, which could weaken the opponents' case.
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