The PS warns the PSD that the interpolated arrival of the prime minister and ministers in Parliament is part of an old “framework agreement” between the two parties. This is because the PSD defends the return of fortnightly debates with the President of the Government and the PS wants the Government leader to attend the plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic only from month to month, the ministers being fifteen days after each one of them. these presences… The PS undertakes to “work on the proposal” with the other parties.
The explanation was left by the parliamentary leader of the PS, Eurico Brilhante Dias, who defends the socialist proposal for a change of regiment. The last change, agreed between PS and PSD, was made just two years ago, precisely to end the fortnight and now, after the absolute socialist majority, the parties have demanded a retraction of the decision.
For the PS, his scheme is sufficient, Brilhante Dias even saying that “this interpolated perspective was an element that was part of a framework agreement between the PS and the PPD-PSD when the PS was still a minority in this chamber of Parliament.” . “The model was previously agreed with the PSD,” he also said about that time.
By the way, he even provoked the Social Democrats, or “PPD-PSD”, as the PS now insists on calling the opponent, saying that sometimes the PS “talks to PPD-PSD A, other times to PPD-PSD B, and consistency is not always absolute and sometimes the inconsistencies themselves”.
The socialist guarantees that it is an “increase in the frequency of debates in the chamber” and that the PS is “comfortable” with this solution that allows, he says, “a periodic inspection of the Government”, with the presence of ministers every 15 plenary days.
What was not monitored by the socialists was what happened a week ago with one of the government ministers and the prime minister. Nor has the episode of the disavowal of Pedro Nuno Santos been commented on today at the meeting of the parliamentary caucus. Two days ago, at a meeting of deputies attended by Costa, on the Decent Work Agenda, no one questioned the leader on the subject.
Absolute silence. Costa uses the labor discussion to divert the focus of the controversies
In this meeting of the caucus “this issue was not the subject of debate”, said the Socialist who preferred to stress that the debate on the motion of censure “went especially well”.
Source: Observadora
