PS/Azores deputy Vasco Cordeiro said this Wednesday that the IL’s tearing up of the parliamentary advocacy agreement passed a “death certificate” to the regional government (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM), which is already “politically dead” used to be.
“The IL terminated the parliamentary advocacy agreement. In light of recent events, this government was already politically dead. What the IL deputy did was to pass the death certificate to this government,” declared , who led the executive of the Azores until 2020.
For Vasco Cordeiro, the current regional government has been and remains the source of political instability in the region.
“This government was, is, and judging by what is known about some organizational solutions of the last government council, with the establishment of mission structures to oversee the new regional health minister, will continue to be the source of political instability in the region .” “, he said.
“I advise the government to consider whether its vulnerability is the best way to serve the Azores and the Azores,” he added.
On Friday, the former president of the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo (HDES), Cristina Fraga, was appointed to the mission structure for the supervision of health care financing (EMAFIS).
The next day, Clélio Meneses, who was part of the PSD lists in the 2020 parliamentary elections, resigned, citing “exclusively political reasons, based on insurmountable and insurmountable differences, evidenced by successive interferences in the exercise of office. […]making it difficult, if not impossible, to fulfill the complex mission of managing the sector”.
On Tuesday, in an interview with RTP, asked directly whether the appointment of Cristina Fraga to EMAFIS was the cause of Clélio Meneses’s resignation, the president of the regional government, the Social Democrat José Manuel Bolieiro, said “no”.
The Liberal Initiative (IL) deputy in the Azores parliament this Wednesday broke the parliamentary advocacy deal with the social democrats in support of the coalition regional government, which brings together PSD, CDS-PP and PPM.
Subsequently, the independent deputy in the parliament of the Azores (formerly Chega) also announced that he was violating the parliamentary advocacy agreement with the government of the Azores.
The three parties that form the government (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM), representing 26 deputies, signed a governance agreement after the October 2020 elections.
The coalition also signed a parliamentary advocacy agreement with Chega and independent deputy Carlos Furtado (elected by Chega) and the PSD an agreement with IL.
The Legislative Assembly of the Azores consists of 57 deputies and in the current term there are 25 from the PS, 21 from the PSD, three from the CDS-PP, two from the PPM, two from the BE, one from the Liberal Initiative, one from the PAN, one from the Chega and an independent deputy (elected by Chega)
Source: DN
