The conference of leaders will meet extraordinarily on Tuesday to discuss the “programming and organization” of the motion of no confidence against the Government of the Liberal Initiative and to consider the requests of PSD and Chega for an urgent debate.
According to information released by the office of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, “he called a extraordinary session for next January 3, at 11:30 a.m.“.
The agenda includes the “consideration of the requests to hold an urgent debate, presented by the Parliamentary Groups of PSD and Chega” and the “programming and ordering of the motion of censure proposed by the Parliamentary Group of Liberal Initiative”.
Prior to this change in agenda, the Leaders’ Conference was scheduled for next Wednesday, January 4, so it was anticipated.
The Liberal Initiative (IL) considers that the socialist executive is irreformable“due to bad convictions, political incapacities or personal fatigue”, according to the text of the motion of censure delivered to parliament and which must be debated on Wednesday (04).
“Whether due to bad convictions, political incapacity or personal exhaustion, we are facing an irreformable executive who projects his inertia and resignation onto the country that entrusted him with the mandate“, reads the eight-page document, which was filed on Thursday night, according to the party.
The Regulations of the Assembly of the Republic establish that the debate of the motion “begins the third parliamentary day following the presentation of the motion of censure, it cannot exceed three days and the agenda has as its only point the debate of the motion of censure”.
Given that the IL formalized the delivery of this initiative on Thursday, and given that on Monday (02) the parliamentarians have a single period and the Assembly of the Republic will be closed, the debate should be held on Wednesday, the 04th.
this Thursday the PSD had requested an urgent debate with the prime minister for next Wednesday, after the resignation of the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos.
André Ventura also indicated that Chega would request “next week an urgent debate in parliament with the presence of the prime minister.”
The President of the Republic excluded this Friday from the scenario of early elections, after the political crisis caused by the dismissals in the executive, and He asked that the PS government “govern and govern better and better”.
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The Regulations of the Assembly of the Republic establish that “they may present motions of censure to the Governmentin the execution of its program or relevant matter of national interest in the terms of article 194 of the Constitution, a quarter of the deputies in office or of any parliamentary group”.
The debate is opened and closed by the first of the signatories of the motion and the prime minister has the right to intervene immediately after and before these interventions by the proponents.
“A motion of censure is only considered approved when it has obtained the votes of the absolute majority of the deputies in force of functions If the motion of censure is not approved, its signatories may not present another in the same legislative session”, reads the Regulation.
IL’s motion of no confidence will be the second faced by the Government since it took office, on March 30, 2022, after having won the legislative elections with an absolute majority.
As in the first motion of censure, presented by Chega, the Government has the absolute majority of PS deputies to support it, also voting in favor of the new initiative.
Source: Observadora
