The president of Chega, André Ventura, challenged the PSD leader, Luís Montenegro, on Monday to enter “into play” in the constitutional review process, whose proposal the party intends to deliver to parliament at the end of this week.
What I expect from the PSD of Montenegro is that it does not do what Rui Rio did, which is to be behind the PS, and that it comes into play even if it is to criticize”, André Ventura challenged, in statements to journalists. in the end of the days of the party dedicated precisely to the constitutional review process.
The president of Chega said that, “in a society in which the right wants to reorganize itself to be the government, These signs have to start to show“, telling journalists that he has not yet spoken with Luís Montenegro on the issue of constitutional review, but that he hopes to “speak later today”.
André Ventura, who intends to enter the parliament of the Chega project “this week” to start this process, suggested that “the PSD does not want any constitutional review” and that is why “it is better to assume that.”
“The truth must come to light about the negotiations that took place in 2020. It was clear that the PSD did not join Chega’s review because it was going to present its own review. They told us that,” he told reporters, considering that this “It was not a guarantee from Rui Rio, it was a guarantee from the PSD” because “the leaders pass and the parties stay”.
Chega, according to his leader, does not want the PSD to accept the party’s text for constitutional review because “he certainly has other proposals.”
But there is a good foundation here. As you know now, a 30-day process is opened, in which the other parties present changes, ”he said.
Ventura announced that on Tuesday he will request a meeting with the President of the Assembly of the Republic to report “on the entry of this project in order to be able” to define the deadlines and the time in which all this is now going to be developed so that other parties can participate”, without “harming the work of the Assembly of the Republic and much less the new State Budget”, expressing “any opening to speed up deadlines in harmony with the parliament”.
The president of Chega also told journalists that he intends to integrate some “improvements and proposals” that the guests and experts present at the parliamentary sessions made in relation to the party’s text “in terms of impediments, criminal justice reform, the environment or environmental Protection”. .
“Everyone knows that we defend life imprisonment and chemical castration, but if that is what we put in the constitutional review, we are left talking to ourselves because nobody else wants to talk about it, then there are many other aspects here that are also important” , He explained.
If what the other parties determine is that “the Constitution must be revised”, Ventura guaranteed that “Certainly Chega will also be open to even removing some elements that the other parties do not accept”but he refused to give up life imprisonment and chemical castration “because that is a bit of the identity of the project” of Chega.
Last week, in an interview with Público and Renascença, the president of the PSD stated that constitutional review and electoral reform “are not priorities.”
Source: Observadora
