The president of Chega, André Ventura, said on Saturday night that the motion of censure against the government, presented by the party and which should be debated on Wednesday in Parliament, aims to “point out” the “serious mistakes that are being made “. .
“It is the instrument [moção de censura] more burdensome in parliamentary democracy to show the Government that the path is wrong (…). It is time to take responsibility and redefine the course. This motion of censure is to tell the President of the Government that he is going the wrong way”, André Ventura said upon his arrival at a meeting with militants in Viana do Castelo.
The Chega leader insisted that if the Ministers of Health, Marta Temido, and of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, are replaced by Wednesday, the party “withdraws the motion of censure.”
“Otherwise, the government will have to discuss this motion of censure in parliament, and the absolute majority of the PS can veto it, but the signal has been given. Naturally, we hope that the PSD, especially the PSD, will join the no-confidence motion, giving a signal to the right,” he said.
Regarding the position of the President of the Republic on the recent case involving the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing and a controversial order on the airport solution for the Lisbon region (although revoked), André Ventura stated that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “wanted say that Pedro Nuno Santos has to go and that António Costa pretended not to hear”.
“We are all realizing now that we are going to have in Pedro Nuno Santos what we had with Eduardo Cabrita, Constança Urbano de Sousa, the Minister of Defense involved in the Tancos case, who was finally acquitted. The country is not prepared to go through this again,” she said.
On Friday, André Ventura announced the presentation of a motion of censure to the Government, an initiative that was initially unsuccessful given that the PS has an absolute majority of deputies in the Assembly of the Republic.
The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, called a meeting of the conference of parliamentary leaders for Tuesday with a view to raising a motion of censure against the government for Wednesday.
According to the Regulations of the Assembly of the Republic, the debate on the motion of censure begins “on the third parliamentary day following the presentation of the motion of censure.”
As Chega formalized this political instrument on Friday, the debate should take place on Wednesday.
Source: Observadora
