Chega’s 12 deputies will elect the leadership of their parliamentary group this Thursday, being the last party to do so, with André Ventura nominating Pedro Pinto for president and Bruno Nunes and Rui Paulo Sousa for vice presidents.
In a statement, Chega announced that the election will be in the early afternoon This Thursday, a press conference is planned in the Assembly of the Republic before the beginning of the plenary session.
Since the beginning of the legislature, on March 29, the party’s leader, André Ventura, has been provisional president of the Chega parliamentary group.
Questioned by journalists at the beginning of May, André Ventura indicated that elections for the leadership of the parliamentary group would take place “shortly after” the budget periodwhich ended last Friday with the global final vote on the General State Budgets.
Ventura said that he would not remain as parliamentary leader and justified the delay of the election with the fact that the caucus is still “in a transition phase.”
“None of Chega’s deputies was a deputy before, here there are bureaucratic, political, habituation issues, as is the case with leadership conferences, agenda, lengthening,” he defended at the time. stating that the party wanted “a peaceful transition“.
Precisely three months earlier, on February 6, the leader of Chega announced in a statement the election of Pedro Pinto, elected by the Faro district, to lead the parliamentary caucus, and of the deputies Rui Paulo Sousa, elected by the district of Lisbon. , and Bruno Nunes, elected by Setúbal, as vice presidents.
This election will take place at a time when all other parliamentary groups elected their respective addresseswhat happened in the first days of the new legislature.
The Chega parliamentary group has 12 deputies, but André Ventura has made most of the interventions in the plenary session and also made statements to journalists.
Source: Observadora
