The suspension of work in committees during the State Budget for 2025 (OE2025) was approved this Friday by the plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic, deciding that parliamentary investigations and two working groups can continue.
The deliberation project, presented by the president of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, was approved unanimously this Friday.
According to this decisionParliamentary committee meetings will be suspended. during the evaluation period, in particular, of the draft State Budget Law for 2025 and until its final global vote, with the exception of the meetings necessary for its evaluation.”
The two parliamentary committees in operation, that of the twins case and that of Holy House of Mercy of Lisbonand the working groups of the Youth and Parish Parliament They were authorized to continue their work.
In the case of the parliamentary investigation into the case of twins treated with the drug Zolgensma, deputies will discuss precisely this afternoon the possible suspension of work during the budget period.
On September 13, the president of this investigative commission and Chega deputy, Rui Paulo Sousa, also admitted that the work of the commission may be suspended for “one or two weeks” during the discussion period of the State Budget for 2025.
“It is an issue that still needs to be analyzed, because there are some deputies, like the only deputy [do PAN]that he cannot be in the auditions and in the budget at the same time,” he said then.
In the case of the investigative commission of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Lisbon, it was decided, at the beginning of October, to postpone the start of work until after the discussion of the OE2025.
Excluded from this suspension decision approved this Friday are the committee meetings for “unpostponable or urgent matters, matters related to the application of the Statute of Deputies, the control of European initiatives, as well as others that require the consensus of the represented parliamentary groups. in them.” .
The general discussion of OE2025 will take place on October 30 and 31, with voting taking place on the latter of these two days.
Then, according to the approved calendar, the evaluation in the specialty will be carried out between November 4 and 29, the day of the final global vote.
Source: Observadora
