This Tuesday, the PSD appointed Joaquim Pinto Moreira, deputy chairman of the bank, as chairman of the final constitutional committee, and André Coelho Lima, former “deputy” of the former leader, Rui Rio, as coordinator.
According to information from the PSD parliamentary group, the vice-coordinator will be the lawyer Mónica Quintela and the “deputies” of the bank Paula Cardoso and Alexandre Poço and the deputies Sara Madruga da Costa, Paulo Moniz and Emília will also be effective in the committee Cerqueira.
Joaquim Pinto Moreira, lawyer and former mayor of Espinho, is deputy for the first time in the current legislature and very close to PSD president Luís Montenegro.
Pinto Moreira led a parliamentary incident today with the President of the Assembly of the Republic, accusing Santos Silva of “not being able to take off the PS shirt” regarding the non-adoption of the PSD draft resolution calling for to a referendum on the decriminalization of euthanasia.
André Coelho Lima, also a lawyer, was vice president of the party and bank during Rui Rio’s leadership.
The parliamentary leader Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, the “vices” of the bank Catarina Rocha Ferreira, Clara Marques Mendes and Hugo Oliveira and the deputies Jorge Paulo Oliveira, António Prôa, Cristiana Ferreira and Márcia Passos will replace the PSD.
The PS had already announced today that the former health minister will nominate Marta Temido as vice-chairman of the final constitutional review committee and will have parliamentary leader Eurico Brilhante Dias as the last deputy on the list.
The PS group chose two constitutionalists for the position of coordinator and deputy coordinator: Pedro Delgado Alves, former leader of the JS and vice-chairman of the bank; and Isabel Moreira, who is part of the National Secretariat of this party.
Among the 10 members of the PS in this committee, there are six deputies, including former minister Alexandra Leitão, Fátima Pinto, Patrícia Faro (representing Socialist Women) and Marta Freitas (representing Madeira), in addition to Marta’s aforementioned picks Temido and Isabel Moreira.
The staff also includes António Monteirinho (deputy of an interior circle), Sérgio Ávila (representative of the Azores) and Francisco Dinis (representative of the JS).
Out of 10 deputies, the PS nominated six deputies and four female deputies: Anabela Real, Fátima Fonseca, João Paulo Rebelo, Maria Begonha, Miguel Rodrigues, Nelson Brito, Pedro Cegonho, Romualda Fernandes, Sara Velez, Tiago Estevão Martins and Eurico Brilhante Dias.
The establishment of the final Constitutional Revision Commission will be voted on today in plenary and should take office next week.
The eight parties with parliamentary seats presented constitutional revision projects, after Chega kicked off the process with an initiative that was admitted to the Assembly of the Republic on October 12.
News updated at 12:01
Source: DN
