Before the new rejection this Thursday of a Chega candidate for the vice presidency of parliament, there had already been more than 50 failed elections for the Table of the Assembly of the Republic since the establishment of democracy.
PS, PSD, CDS, PRD and PCP had candidates rejected by their peers. Almost all of them ended up elected in the second, third or fourth round.but there were those who withdrew candidates, and the Assembly Bureau has already functioned with one vice president less for three years, from 1995 to 1998.
The period with the most failed elections, over 30, was the V Legislature, between 1987 and 1991, when the PSD had an absolute majority and vice-presidential candidates such as António Marques Júnior, from the PRD, and Ferraz de Abreu, from the PS, did not. he got the necessary votes over and over again. It was also the case of Cláudio Percheiro and Apolónia Teixeira, proposed by the PCP for secretaries or deputy secretaries.
At that time, the Bureau of the Assembly of the Republic was elected at the beginning of each legislative session and some candidacies were repeated annually and successively failed, although in the third round all the remaining members managed to be elected.
As for the presidency of the Assembly of the Republic, Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida, from the PSD, needed four elections to be elected president, compared to Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos, from the PS, in 1982, in the Second Legislature, in which there were majority of the Democratic Alliance (AD) between PSD, CDS and PPM.
Also with PSD and CDS-PP in majority, in 2011, in the XII Legislature, Fernando Nobre failed two consecutive elections for the presidency of parliament and did not run for the third. In his place, the Social Democrats later proposed Assunção Esteves, elected in the first attempt.
In the midst of the First Legislature, in 1978, although he was the only candidate, Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos, from the PS, needed two votes to be elected president of the Assembly of the Republic. The same thing happened in the following legislature, with Francisco Oliveira Dias, from the CDS, who faced Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos, in 1981, in the AD era.
In the Sixth Legislature, in 1991, the second absolute majority of the PSD, António Barbosa de Melo, of the PSD, against Alberto Oliveira e Silva, of the PS, in 1991, was also elected only for the second.
In 1995, in the VII Legislature, with the PS in government although without an absolute majority of deputies, two candidates proposed by the CDS-PP for vice president and secretary of the Assembly Table, respectively, Krus Abecasis and Helena Santo, failed three times. election times and withdrew the candidacies.
Krus Abecasis was finally elected Vice President after more than three years, in late 1998, five months before his death.
The results of these elections are included in the newspapers of the Assembly of the Republic.
On March 31 of this year, at the beginning of the XV Legislature, there have been three unsuccessful elections for vice president of parliamentof the Chega candidates Diogo Pacheco de Amorim, first, and Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro, later, and of the Liberal Initiative João Cotrim de Figueiredo, a party that later did not want to propose more candidates.
This Thursday, there was another failed election in this legislature, for Rui Paulo Sousa, the third candidate proposed by Chega for vice president of the Assembly of the Republic.
Enough miss to choose AR vice for the third time. PS says that the PSD today abdicated “from the fight against the extreme right”
Source: Observadora
