The recordings in the office and visiting room of the speaker of parliament now require “explicit consent”, following the controversial video released on April 25, which the inquiry concluded was not infringing by officials.
According to the summary of the meeting of the Conference of Leaders on June 7, released this Friday, Augusto Santos Silva informed the delegates that the investigation ordered by him, after making a video on April 25 in the room of visits by the Speaker of Parliament concluded that “there had been no changes compared to the practices that occurred in the Assembly of the Republic in previous years, so there was no infringement whatsoever by parliamentary officials”, a conclusion to which he agreed.
It was also suggested “the change in the standards of image and sound creation in more reserved spaces”with Santos Silva asking the Secretary General of Parliament to “submit proposals for refining the applicable rules, which will take effect from the next legislature”.
As of now, the summary reads: “the recordings in the office and in the visitors’ room of the President of the Assembly of the Republic require express permission”.
At stake is a video shot by Canal Parliament between the welcoming ceremony for the President of Brazil and the solemn commemoration session of the Carnation Revolution, again broadcast on television.
In this video, Santos Silva appears smiling while recounting the incident with Chega, during the welcome session for the President of Brazil in the plenary assembly of the Republic, in a circle that also includes the Head of State, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister António Costa, among others and Secretary General of Parliament, Albino Azevedo Soares.
Santos Silva also told deputies that he had reported to the Attorney General’s Office the events that took place during a visit to parliament by the “youtuber”, Tiago Paiva, on May 26, after asking “the legal auditor of the Assembly of the Republic for an opinion on the possible criminal relevance of the facts that occurred, whereas the fact in question was probably relevant, in the abstract, to the offense of insulting a body exercising public authority in which is provided for and punishable by the Penal Code”.
The ‘youtuber’ controversy arose after the release of a video about a visit by the Liberal Initiative (IL) to the Assembly of the Republic, in which Tiago Paiva made an insulting remark directed at the Prime Minister, in a speech delivered from the pulpit of the Sala of Sessions.
Source: DN
