Chega requested an urgent hearing from the President of the Republic after the episode with Augusto Santos Silva that led the party’s deputies to leave the Chamber after a warning from the President of the Assembly of the Republic.
In a statement, Chega accuses the president of the Assembly of the Republic of acting with “lack of impartiality and independence” and “behave like a representative of the ruling majority, when this must be the guarantor of the proper functioning of parliamentary work, pluralism and democratic representation”.
In the eyes of the party, Santos Silva’s attitude is “censorship” and “questions democracy and disrespects the approximately 400,000 Portuguese who voted for the party” who end up “seeing their muted voice in what should have been the house of democracy.”
“no memory of a President of the Assembly of the Republic making a political intervention on a bill that is currently under discussion, making considerations that led the Chega parliamentary group to have no other alternative than to leave the Chamber, as a form of protest”, justifies the party ., similar to what André Ventura said at a press conference, shortly after the deputies allowed Santos Silva to speak alone during a reprimand.
Chega considers that Santos Silva’s “persecutory behavior” towards the party led by Ventura has been “repeated since the beginning of the legislature” and recalls that, in four months, Santos Silva “refused to schedule an urgent debate on fires, admit law party bills and even [fez] the abrupt and arbitrary interruptions of the deputies in the use of the word”, which he says, are, “trampling on the regiment of the Assembly of the Republic”.
During a reprimand, deputies from Chega leave the chamber and let Santos Silva speak alone
Source: Observadora
