Chega this Monday presented several proposals to change the legal regime over the incompatibilities and impediments of political office holders and defended that they are responding “clearly” to the appeal of the president of the republic to parliament.
“Specifically targeting this Monday and the issues on the table, in response to the appeal of the President of the Republic, Chega proposes to amend Article 9 of the Incompatibility Act,” André Ventura said at a press conference at headquarters. of the party in Lisbon.
According to the leader, Chega wants to “prohibit ministers and holders of political office from doing business with the state regardless of their participation” in any business or society and proposes that the “regime apply to spouses even if they are separated from persons and property”.
In this last aspect, André Ventura pointed out that: the prosecution has already acknowledged that it “has doubts about the constitutionality that the proposal can also cover de facto divorced spouses”, in a ruling on another bill the party has submitted, but that will be withdrawn with the presentation of this new to introduce.
The party led by Ventura also wants “all contracts made by relatives of politicians” to be published on the Internet portal for public procurement and also on the portal “More transparency”.
André Ventura indicated that another of the proposals concerns the exercise of the mandate on an exclusive basis and Chega wants “when there is a regular and systematic compensation, regardless of the source, the holder cannot benefit” from this regime.
“Whether we’re talking about artistic creation, copyright, conferences, lectures, short-term training, it makes no sense for a deputy to exclusively and at the same time receive a monthly salary on a regular, systematic and up-to-date basis,” he defended. .
Chega’s leader referred to the case of BE’s deputy Mariana Mortágua and her collaborations in comment rooms in a newspaper and on a television channel, but refused to “fulanize”.
Other proposals presented this Monday aim to “ban revolving doors between public administration and ministries’ functions, as this is one of the greatest forms of bias in public administration”.
André Ventura also announced that the party wants to “end the exclusion of sovereign bodies related to corruption prevention mechanisms”, so that “everyone will be linked to these mechanisms without exception”.
As for the Transparency Entity, Chega wants it to “get off the ground” and be “able to express opinions about conflicts of interest and incompatibilities.”
The party also wants to “revise the Responsibility Crimes Act of Holders of Public Offices and Public Managers, equating holders of political positions with public managers in terms of the implications and application of this law.”
With these “radical” proposals for “key diplomas”, Chega aims to “pass firm, durable and highly restrictive legislation,” the leader said.
“It seems to me that we are clearly responding to the appeal of the President of the Republic in this matter,” defended André Ventura, refusing to say “patches” to the legislation, but noting that “changing all legislation 40 years in this field is impossible, certainly not in a way that is quickly and clearly desired.”
The party will present these projects to the Assembly of the Republic “once the budget debate is over” and the party wants the parliament to debate the issue again at that time.
A debate proposed by Chega is already scheduled for Friday on “the successive cases of alleged incompatibilities and conflicts of interest involving several ministers”.
On Wednesday, the president of the republic asked parliament to review the legal regime regarding the incompatibilities and obstacles of holders of political positions, if the assembly of the republic “deems such reflection relevant and necessary”.
“I used a message addressed to the Assembly of the Republic to ask the parties, all of them, to consider very different laws, which are 40 years old, which are shreds of shreds, touches of touches, to come up with a clear solution. found in the law, and therefore clearly in politics,” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said in statements to journalists on Saturday.
Source: DN
