Chega will try again to elect a vice president of the Assembly of the Republic. The deputy and vice president of the parliamentary caucus Rui Paulo Sousa He will be the party’s third candidate after Diogo Pacheco Amorim and Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro failed in the elections at the start of the legislature. The Liberal Initiative – which also failed to elect the leader João Cotrim Figueiredo to the position at the beginning of the legislature – will continue to leave the chair empty, since it understands that “circumstances have not changed.”
The election of a new vice president of Parliament was added at the end of the morning on the agenda of this Thursday’s plenary session and appears in the singular. Just enough goes to the game in the third attempt to elect a vice president of the Assembly of the Republic. Rui Paulo Sousa’s name was confirmed to the Observer by the party’s parliamentary leader, Pedro Pinto.
This new attempt by Chega comes at a time when the parliamentary group is fueling a dispute with Augusto Santos Silva, having even presented a draft resolution to censure the conduct of the President of Parliament. The parliamentary regiment indicates that the four most voted parties can present candidates for vice president, but Chega and the Liberal Initiative failed to be elected at the beginning of this legislature.
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Rui Paulo Sousa is currently the coordinator of the party’s Ethics Commission, responsible for raising several cases of suspension of militants, and also the party’s general secretary. The deputy was one of the accused after a dinner rally held by Chega during the pandemic period, responding for the crime of disobedience. Within the parliamentary group, the businessman is one of the vice presidents.
Despite Chega’s new attempt, the Liberal Initiative will remain out of the game. For the Observer, the parliamentary leader, Rodrigo Saraiva, understands that “the political circumstances that led IL to no longer present a candidacy for one of the vice-presidents of the Assembly of the Republic on March 31, in which the name of João Cotrim Figueiredo was not voted for by 116 deputies, they did not change” and for this reason “the decision remains not to present a new candidacy”.
The table of the Assembly of the Republic worked during the first legislative session with only two of the four vice presidents. Edite Estrela, nominated by the PS, and Adão Silva, nominated by the PSD, were the only names elected at the beginning of parliamentary work, with the deputies postponing the election of the others for a later date, after two failed attempts. This Thursday there is a new roundwith Chega trying again for that institutional place in the Assembly of the Republic.
Source: Observadora
