Chega and the Liberal Initiative this Thursday criticized the foreign minister for announcing that the Brazilian president will speak at April 25 commemorations, calling it “a disrespect” for parliament and an “unacceptable trampling”.
The foreign minister announced in Brasilia on Thursday that Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva, will address the Republic’s Assembly at its formal session on April 25.
Chega’s president raised the issue in plenary before the end of the session and questioned the PSD’s acting president, Adão Silva. André Ventura stated that “The Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Cravinho, has just announced that the Brazilian President will speak in this House without his person, the President-in-Office or any parliamentary group being heard.’, referring to not being aware of this invitation.
The Chega leader felt that this situation is “a huge disrespect to the Assembly of the Republic” and “a disgrace”. “It is a bit disrespectful for a minister, and not your Excellency, to announce who is speaking in this room”, orphan. Without the President of the Assembly of the Republic present in the hemicycle, Vice President Adão Silva stated that Augusto Santos Silva “will certainly give the explanations that he understands, and, as is known, and always, the conference of leaders on this matter of planning who speaks and what is on the agenda and what is being discussed in parliament”.
A little later, in statements to journalists in Passos Perdidos, the president of the Liberal Initiative (IL) protested: “what we are now learning in this absolutely anomalous way constitutes an unacceptable trampling of what the parliamentary institution itself is”. “The Secretary of State is not at home. This is the house of democracy, which has its own procedures, and the correct procedure is that the April 25 formal session is discussed in the context of a conference of leaders”he defended, pointing out that “none of that happened”.
Rui Rocha found it “incomprehensible that the Foreign Minister presented a decision that was not shared with the parliamentary groups, was not shared with the deputies, was not clarified, was not discussed”, accusing João Gomes Cravinho of “disregarding any institutional solidarity violated”. responsibility to the Portuguese Parliament”. The Liberal deputy pointed out “neither António Costa, nor Minister Cravinho, nor the government, nor the PS are the owners of parliament and it is unacceptable that they behave as if they decide in their own house what they want about an institution and about a procedure that in fact isn’t it up to them”.
The IL leader said he wanted to believe “that the President of the Assembly of the Republic is not aware of this”, but warned that “if he is, it is also very serious”, noting that “clarifications will be immediately have to come”. Asked if the IL agrees with Lula da Silva’s presence at the April 25 celebration, Rui Rocha pointed out that it is a celebration of “the freedom of the Portuguese”, and that “there is no context for this kind of invitation “, and defended that “It doesn’t make any sense at this point for this to happen.”
In a publication on the social network Twitter, the group leader of the BE believed that received “in parliament, the man who put Bolsonaro in the dustbin of history is good news”, but stressed that “it should not be appropriated by the government for a political number”. “Can Lula da Silva explain to Cravinho and Santos Silva the principle of separation of powers?” asked Pedro Filipe Soares.
Source: DN
