Chega made public this Sunday a draft resolution in which it is intended They condemn the conduct of the President of the Assembly of the RepublicAugusto Santos Silva, for lack of impartiality and exemption in the exercise of his position.
In general terms, the Chega deputies accuse Augusto Santos Silva, a PS deputy elected by the Fora da Europa circle and former Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, of having violated his duties of impartiality. in five different types of situations in the parliamentary sphere.
The draft resolution specifies that, in just over three months, the President of the Assembly of the Republic Chega refused to schedule two debates of urgency and the admissibility of three bills.
In the specific case of the refusal to schedule debates or urgent bills, the decisions of Augusto Santos Silva were justified by the existence of violations of the Constitution of the Republic and/or the Regulations of the Assembly of the Republic by Chega. —and these decisions had the support of the other parliamentary political forces.
In May, Chega intended to schedule an urgent debate – a mandatory right conferred by the Regulation – on the reception of Ukrainian citizens in Portugal and the possible presence of pro-Russian spies in Portugal. But work in plenary was suspended because then the specialty phase of the debate on the State Budget for 2022 was underway.
More recently, Chega wanted to schedule an urgent debate on the fires before the debate on the state of the nation, this Wednesday, but the president of the Assembly of the Republic responded that outside the normal parliamentary period, between September 15 and December 15. June 2019. this sovereign body works”only in exact terms” of the deliberation of June 3 that determined that there would only be plenary sessions on the 20th and 21st of this month.
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Regarding legislative initiatives, Chega presented a project to increase the prison sentence to 65 years, which was considered unconstitutional by the President of the Assembly of the Republic.
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André Ventura appealed this decision, last Wednesday, before the Constitutional Affairs Commission, but PS, PSD, PCP, Liberal Initiative and PAN signed the decision of Augusto Santos Silva of not admitting this legislative initiative for violating the Constitution of the Republic.
Chega also criticizes the President of the Assembly of the Republic for not having allowed the discussion of one of his diplomas to authorize the lifting of the immunity of the deputies in order to declare or become accused when the facts related to the voting are not known. . at stake and the opinions they express in the exercise of their functions.
“All projects that meet the regiment’s criteria must be accepted and discussed,” Chega replies.
In this resolution, Chega still censures Augusto Santos Silva for having interrupted André Ventura to speak, after he said that “there is a gypsy who fled to another country after killing a PSP and that the patriarch of the gypsy community He says that in his time he will hand him over to justice.” Augusto Santos Silva rebuked him, claiming that “there are no attributions of collective guilt in Portugal”.
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Chega also denounces that the President of the Assembly of the Republic did not allow him to close a debate he requested on refugees on June 1, which configured “a total arbitrariness”.
On June 30, when a set of initiatives related to professional orders was being debated, Chega’s bench claimed to have requested a reduction in the commission for their initiative, but the PS refused.
“The issue was immediately raised by other parliamentary groups, who also believed that public consultation should be respected, but without any success, because the alignment between the President of the Assembly of the Republic and the PS was and is evident,” he adds. . in the Basta resolution.
Source: Observadora
