The PSD threatens to vote against the amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) if the PS does not abandon the model it has proposed for parliamentary debates with the prime minister. If this scenario materializes, it will be the first time that the current Rules of Procedure, approved by socialists and social democrats in 2007, are changed without consensus between the two major parties.
Yesterday, after the meeting of the PSD group, the party’s parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, defended that the new model defended by the PS “greatly undermines Parliament’s inspection capacity”qualifies as a “serious risk to democracy and the country” if a rule of procedure is “only approved by a party that indirectly has an absolute majority”, which is parliament’s ability to oversee the government, Miranda noted Sarmento up.
Source: DN
