The Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees today rejected the admissibility of the Chega project, which aimed to censor the behavior of the Speaker of Parliament, Augusto Santos Silva, with the PSD abstaining.
PS, IL, PCP, BE, PAN and Livre voted in favor of the advice of the PAN deputy, Inês Sousa Real, Chega opposed and the PSD abstained.
According to Inês Sousa Real, Inês Sousa Real argues that the Chega initiative, which aims to censor the behavior of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, “suffers from constitutional and regimental anomalies”, which cannot be admitted.
The Social Democrats justified their abstention on the grounds that they did not want to be aware of the conflicts between the Speaker of the Parliament and Chega, who according to Deputy Mónica Quintela “serve the interests of each of them only”.
In late July, Chega presented a draft resolution seeking to condemn the conduct of the Speaker of Parliament for lack of impartiality and exemption in the performance of his duties.
Santos Silva asked the Constitutional Affairs Committee to issue an opinion “on the constitutional and regimental compliance” of the Chega Resolution Project, “namely with a view to its admissibility” and justified this decision “due to the doubts of the services of the Assembly but also because of the very deep and very complex doubts “at the ethical-political level, not because of this particular motion for a resolution, but because of the precedent it can set”.
The drafting of the opinion was attributed to the PAN after the PSD asked for an apology for doing so and refused to feed political “folklore”, and the Liberal Initiative also refused to “do the work to be done by the PSD.” done”.
Source: DN
