The PAN will draft the opinion on the Chega resolution project that wants to censor the conduct of the president of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva. The PSD apologized for not wanting to “enter political folklore” between Santos Silva and the party led by André Ventura. The order of attribution of the opinion continued and the PAN ended up being the first to accept this task.
Deputy Paula Cardoso, who would be the document’s rapporteur, said that “the PSD understood not to participate in these disputes between the party of the President of the Assembly of the Republic and Chega,” and added that “it must be resolved between the two” and that, therefore, “the PSD is not available to participate in these folklore“.
Pedro Delgado Alves, from the PS, asked for the floor to defend that the excuse request was not valid, “taking into account that a parliamentary group cannot propose who writes the opinion” and that “the distribution of initiatives has rules”. In other words, an order that must be followed. The PS deputy also defended that the only parliamentary groups “that should be excluded are the PS and Chega, since they are directly involved in the issue.”
Without having duly voted on the excuse request, all the PSD deputies refused to draft the opinion, which led the commission’s president, Fernando Negrão, to follow the order of distribution. PSD, PS, Chega and the Liberal Initiative refused to be authors of the document. The PCP and the Bloco de Esquerda were not in the room at the time of the distribution and that is why the deputy Inês Sousa Real, from the PAN, was the first to accept, saying that “folklore is what is happening”, with the controversy attribution of authorship of the opinion.
The parliamentary leader of Chega, Pedro Pinto, limited himself to saying that “Enough is enough for an opinion to be prepared”, criticizing the delay of the PSD “which after agreeing to make the document, comes to say that after all it does not ”.
The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, sent the Enough draft resolution to the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, understanding that there cannot be a framework for this type of parliamentary initiative.
An indication from the deputies’ support services says that the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees is competent to issue an opinion, but that the format proposed by Chega “the political “censorship” of a deputy’s conduct (in this case, of the President of the Assembly of the Republic) does not seem to have another procedural disposition”, except for the denunciations in plenary session. And he added that “it would seem inappropriate for a parliamentary group or a deputy to present a draft resolution to censure the conduct of another deputy who is not the president of the Assembly of the Republic.”
Even so, Parliament’s services consider that, since it is not a liquid situation -even due to the lack of an absolutely unequivocal framework on what a resolution is and what corresponds to it from a constitutional and regimental point of view-, the possibility to request an opinion from the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Source: Observadora
