The President of the Assembly of the Republic, PS and BE accused Chega of resorting to procrastination procedures to delay the euthanasia legislative process, after the party announced a complaint about the final wording of the text.
At stake is the final wording of the text on medically assisted death that was unanimously approved on Wednesday – also by Chega – in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
The issue was raised this Thursday during the election period by the parliamentary leader of the BE, Pedro Filipe Soares, who questioned Santos Silva whether the news they brought against this claim was true.
Both Pedro Filipe Soares and PS deputy Isabel Moreira accused Chega of “taking what was said for not being said”, after approving the final wording in committee and simply wanting to do a “procrastination maneuver”, with André Ventura arguing that if it is “a legal and not a political complaint”.
The speaker of the parliament stated that this claim had not yet been made, but stressed that each deputy has three days to do so, from the publication of the decree in the Journal of the Assembly of the Republic, a period that will only be will end on Tuesday as there is point tolerance on Friday.
“I have to read the complaint to see if there is any basis I am missing (…) We all understand that there are several attempts at stake, not to say administratively, but through successive delaying procedures, to deliberation of the AR how the deliberations of a democratic assembly are taken, with a relevant majority,” he said.
This statement by Augusto Santos Silva sparked an immediate protest from the leader of Chega, who accused the Speaker of Parliament of issuing the complaint before he knew it.
“Even the worst Soviet courts have not done this, their attitude is disgraceful,” Ventura criticized.
Source: DN
