This Wednesday, the leader of the PS bank considered it essential that “bad education” and contempt elicited by the parliamentary extreme right, both in the plenary session and in the committee, should now be stopped in order not to degrade the image of parliament.
This position was taken by Eurico Brilhante Dias after the Leaders’ Conference decided that no rules or sanctions framework other than the current one are needed to ensure the regular functioning of parliamentary work.
According to the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, the Conference of Leaders followed his position that “more rules are not needed, another sanctions framework is not needed”, adding that this decision was supported by all parliamentary groups “minus one”, the Enough.
Eurico Brilhante Dias, in statements to journalists, noted that only Chega spoke out against “more effective supervision of compliance with the regulations of the Assembly of the Republic and the minimum standards of urbanity in this house”.
“The Assembly of the Republic experienced moments it was not used to: the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Edite Estrela was insulted several times; we had a session with the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, in which our guest was treated to an undemocratic and very rude”he accused.
According to the leader of the socialist bank, there is also “bullying behavior towards the few deputies of Livre [Rui Tavares] and the PAN [Inês de Sousa Real]; there are papers in the building with the faces of the President of the Assembly of the Republic with a cross on them, and behavior has been shown in committee meetings that does not allow the proper functioning of parliamentary work”.
“This systematic behavior of the parliamentary extreme right must be stopped so that the institutions do not deteriorate,” emphasized the chairman of the PS group.
Eurico Brilhantes Dias also pointed out that at Wednesday’s leadership conference, the PS not only agreed with the position of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, but also warned that “it will not allow it to contribute to the degradation of the parliamentary institution”.
“I was pleased to see that the far-right parliamentary group was isolated” at the leadership conference, he said.
Regarding a “Youtuber” who recently visited parliament at the invitation of the Liberal Initiative, after later insulting the Prime Minister, António Costa, after going to the speakers’ tribune, Eurico Brilhante Dias noted that the Liberal bench offered an apology. for this incident.
‘But what happened was very serious’he stressed.
Source: DN
