Santos Silva took part in the PGR in the case of a youtuber who insulted Costa in parliament

The President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, reported to the Office of the Attorney General (PGR) the insults directed by youtuber Tiago Paiva to António Costa in a video recorded in parliament at the invitation of the liberal initiative . TSF.

IL invited two youtubers to record videos in the Assembly of the Republic, one of which, Tiago Paiva, gave a speech from the pulpit of the hemicycle insulting the Prime Minister. “Costa, go to the c**********,” the video shot.

Incredible! IL invites a YouTuber to climb the pulpit of the Assembly of the Republic and end the speech with an unacceptable insult to the Prime Minister! Where does the political responsibility lie? Will the IL leadership consider this a policy innovation? pic.twitter.com/eyQklrMpGY

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The subject was raised at the beginning of the plenary session in early May by Socialist deputy Pedro Delgado Alves, who said he was aware of a video showing “in the context of a visit [ao parlamento] accompanied by a delegate from the IL group, Mr. Bernardo Blanco”, a ‘youtuber’ recorded an intervention from the pulpit of the Sala das Sessions.

In a speech defending local accommodation, Tiago Paiva (who publishes videos on the ‘Youtube’ platform) ends his speech by adding “an express and serious insult” to the Prime Minister, considered to be Pedro Delgado Alves.

IL parliamentary leader Rodrigo Saraiva immediately apologized for the video, explaining that the visit of two ‘youtubers’ to parliament was included in the scope of activities aimed at bringing “younger people closer to parliamentary reality”. to take.

“That was the purpose of that visit. There were two ‘youtubers’ who were here to make videos, unfortunately one of them did not behave correctly, which we regret and apologize for,” he said, applauding got some PS and PSD. delegates.

A little earlier, Pedro Delgado Alves had noted that the PS encourages citizens’ visits to parliament, but stressed that “there are insults that cannot be tolerated in certain spaces”.