The president of the Republic’s Assembly, Augusto Santos Silva, will only decide on the agenda for the April 25 formal session “in due course” and after listening to the conference of leaders, a source from his office told Lusa.
In response to the Lusa news agency to the announcement this Thursday in Brasília by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, that the Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, will speak at the Assembly of the Republic in the formal session of April 25 an official source from Augusto Santos Silva’s office referred to any decision as “in due time”.
“Under the terms of the Rules, the agenda is set by the PAR after hearing the Conference of Leaders and this will be done in due course with regard to the sessions to be held in the second half of AprilSantos Silva’s office responded without further explanation.
During the afternoon of this Thursday, Chega and Iniciativa Liberal in parliament criticized the foreign minister for announcing that the Brazilian president will speak at the April 25 commemorations, seen as “a lack of respect” for parliament and a ” unacceptable trampling”.
Chega’s president raised the issue in plenary before the end of the session, questioned the acting president, Adão Silva, of the PSD, and considered that this situation “is a huge disrespect to the Assembly of the Republic” and “a disgrace”.
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, the president of the Liberal Initiative (IL), Rui Rocha, protested in statements in Passos Perdidos: “what we are now learning in this absolutely abnormal way constitutes an unacceptable violation of what the parliamentary institution itself is” . .
“The foreign minister is not at home. This is the house of democracy, which has its own procedures, and the correct procedure is that the solemn session of April 25 is discussed in the context of a conference of leadershe defended, pointing out that “none of that happened”.
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”.
In a post on social media tweetjudged the leader of the BE receiving “in parliament, the man who put Bolsonaro in the dustbin of history is good news”but emphasized that “should not be appropriated by the government for a political number”.
We welcome to Parliament the man who has put Bolsonaro in the dustbin of history, which is good news.
But 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?– Pedro Filipe Soares (@PedroFgSoares) February 23, 2023
“Can Lula da Silva explain to Cravinho and Santos Silva the principle of separation of powers?” Pedro Filipe Soares shot down in a publication later shared by BE leader Catarina Martins.
Assembly of the Republic “is sovereign in the decisions it makes,” says MNE
However, Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho clarified that the Assembly of the Republic is “sovereign in the decisions it takes”, after announcing that the Brazilian president will speak in parliament during the April 25 formal session.
“I want to clarify that the Assembly of the Republic is sovereign in the decisions it takes,” he said in a statement to Lusa, the head of Portuguese diplomacy, who was in Brasília today to prepare, together with his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira. , the next top bilateral event, scheduled for April 22-25.
“State visit [a Portugal] of President Lula da Silva will take place between April 22 and 25. Normally, a state visit always has a component involving the Assembly of the Republic, a visit to the Assembly of the Republic, despite all the institutional burdens that this entails,” said João Gomes Cravinho.
The minister also said that “given the dates of the visit, the only effective day” for the presence of the Brazilian head of state in the Portuguese parliament would be April 25.
Hours earlier, during a press conference with the Brazilian minister, the head of Portuguese diplomacy had announced that Lula da Silva would speak at the assembly of the Republic of Portugal on April 25 celebration, noting that “it is the first time that a head of foreign state gives a speech on that date”.
News updated at 21:14
Source: DN
