The debate over the revision of the Aliens Act left Chega isolated this Thursday, causing a moment of tension with the President of the Assembly of the Republic, which culminated in the deputies of André Ventura’s party leaving the meeting room.
Chega’s parliamentary bench left the plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic in the midst of an intervention by Augusto Santos Silva, when it reacted directly to the criticism of André Ventura, who accused the president of the parliament of not being exempted and the PS to represent in its duties..
The exchange of arguments began after an intervention by the leader of Chega, in the debate on a government proposal that changes the legal regime for the entry, residence, departure and expulsion of foreigners from the national territory, three bills of Livre and a initiative of the He comes.
André Ventura accused the government of wanting immigrants to come to the country “anyway” and fired: “There are only a few who never take precedence in the government’s speech, the Portuguese who have worked all their lives, pay taxes and support the country”.
The leader of this party even said that immigrants arriving in Portugal are not the same as Portuguese emigrating to other countries, an intervention that provoked many protests from various deputies in the hemisphere and led to the intervention of the President of the Assembly of the Republic Augusto Santos Silva.
“I must say that as President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, I believe that Portugal owes much, if not much, to the many thousands of immigrants who work here, who live here and who contribute here to our social security, to our social cohesion, our collective life, for our citizenship and for our dignity as an open country that is inclusive and respectful of others”he declared, cheered by representatives from several banks, with the exception of Chega.
André Ventura objected, saying that the Speaker of Parliament should “abstain from commenting” on the deputies’ interventions and accuse him of representing the PS in its functions. In this intervention, he heard criticism from other banks, with the Speaker of Parliament intervening to ask the deputies to listen to André Ventura.
Augusto Santos Silva – who has been applauded several times for his interventions by deputies from different banks – replied that he does not represent the PS in its functions, but “the common democratic ground of this Assembly, as the Constitution stipulates and the regiment imposes”.
“My most fundamental function is to ensure the prestige of the Assembly of the Republic and when the prestige of the Assembly of the Republic is at stake, Your Excellency can be assured that I will intervene,” he said, after he had left the Chega bank in the middle of this intervention: the semicircle.
Chega’s deputy Diogo Pacheco de Amorim left moments later.
Source: El heraldo
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