---
pretty_name: São Tomé and Príncipe Laws and Diário da República (governo.st / Assembleia / Justiça / Finanças)
license: other
license_name: st-governo-assembleia-justica-official-texts
language:
- pt
task_categories:
- text-retrieval
tags:
- legal
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- sao-tome-and-principe
- diario-da-republica
- governo
- assembleia
- constitucao
- official-texts
size_categories:
- n<1K
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- config_name: laws
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- config_name: articles
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---

# São Tomé and Príncipe Laws and Diário da República (governo.st / Assembleia / Justiça / Finanças)

Research snapshot of official national legislation from **Portal do Governo (governo.st) + Assembleia Nacional (assembleia.st / parlamento.st) + Presidência (presidencia.st) + Justiça (justica.gov.st) + Finanças (financas.gov.st) + gov.st / BCSTP / INE (*.st / *.gov.st)**.

**Not legal advice.** The official gazette / authentic source prevails over this corpus.

## Snapshot

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Snapshot date | 2026-09-18 |
| Coverage | catalog-backed incomplete (live crawl governo.st / assembleia.st / presidencia.st / justica.gov.st / financas.gov.st + CDX of official *.st / *.gov.st PDFs) |
| Source | Portal do Governo (governo.st) + Assembleia Nacional (assembleia.st / parlamento.st) + Presidência (presidencia.st) + Justiça (justica.gov.st) + Finanças (financas.gov.st) + gov.st / BCSTP / INE (*.st / *.gov.st) |
| Collector | `scrapers/collect_st.py` |
| Laws / instruments | 116 |
| Articles | 3,658 |
| Language | pt |
| Jurisdiction | Sao Tome and Principe |
| License | `st-governo-assembleia-justica-official-texts` |

## Contents

- `data/laws.parquet` — one row per instrument.
- `data/articles.parquet` — article/section rows for the same snapshot.
- `scrapers/collect_st.py` — research collector used to build this snapshot.

## License / reuse

República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe — governo.st / assembleia.st / parlamento.st / presidencia.st / justica.gov.st / financas.gov.st / gov.st. Authentic Diário da República / official text prevails. Not legal advice. Not Equatorial Guinea (gq) / Gabon (ga) / Angola (ao)..

This dataset is **not legal advice**. The official source prevails.

## Source

- https://www.governo.st/

## Known gaps

Official São Tomé and Príncipe (cc=st) law / Diário PDFs from *.st / *.gov.st only (Governo, Assembleia, Presidência, Justiça, Finanças, BCSTP, INE). Live-first; Wayback/CDX of official URLs on fail; OCR por+fra+spa for scanned PDFs. Not AfricanLII / Droit-Afrique. No WAF bypass. Distinct from Equatorial Guinea (gq), Gabon (ga), Angola (ao). Not legal advice.

## Update 2026-09-16

Merged **6** newly scraped instruments (country: Sao Tome and Principe; sources: official_gazette_archive, saotome_official_diario_republica_laws; languages: pt). Total instruments now **95**. Merge is additive by instrument id; no previously published rows were removed.

## Update 2026-09-18

Merged **21** newly scraped instruments (country: Sao Tome and Principe; sources: code, constitution, official_gazette_archive, saotome_official_diario_republica_laws, statute; languages: en, pt). Total instruments now **116**. Merge is additive by instrument id; no previously published rows were removed.