Concept in Definition ABC

The one with the repeal it's a very common procedure that occurs at the request of the right and that consists of abolishing a law, a rule or a provision that has been in force in a legal system. Then, once the aforementioned repeal is effective, the law in question loses its value and from that moment on, its claim cannot be claimed. compliance because it no longer exists.

In systems government democratic is the legislative power the body in charge and empowered to enact laws and also to repeal them. For example, it will be in the debate parliamentary where the derogations to the laws will always be defined.
Now, it is worth noting that in some countries there are organisms that are empowered to carry out derogations.

There are two classic derogations, the unspoken, which are characterized because when a new law is enacted, it will nullify those previous ones that propose the diametrically opposite; and the express derogations, as its name already says, they will categorically indicate that this or that norm is annulled.

It should be noted that around the issue of repeal there are often controversies and scandals, especially when it is valuable norms for social welfare that are subject to repeal.

Many times, the authorities and the representatives of the people privilege interests, commercial and political, to the detriment of other more important and that they affect the rights of citizens, and then with the powers that confer their positions they give way and free way to the repeal of laws essential.

On Argentina, for example, during the constitutional government of Raúl Alfonsín, after a serial revolt embodied by the armed forces, this sector succeeded in getting the president to dictate the final point laws and of due obedience that prevented a large part of the armed forces from being prosecuted for their criminal actions during the dictatorship.
To slow the escalation of violence perpetrated by this sector is that the Alfonsín government issued these controversial regulations.

Of course, the upset was fantastic since it was not conceivable that after the historic trial of the boards, held during that administration, these unfair rules would later be proposed.

Finally and fortunately years later these laws were annulled.