In a five-page message dated today, the Speaker of Parliament indicates that he has asked the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees to “issue an opinion on the constitutional and regimental compliance” of the Chega Resolution Project,” namely, for the purpose of its admissibility”.
AND justifies this decision “because of the doubts expressed by the services of the Assembly, but also because of the very deep and very complex doubts” expressed “at the ethical-political level, not by this particular draft resolution, but by the precedent set by can make”.
Augusto Santos Silva points out that the note prepared by the services of the Parliament refers “that the form of the project is not adequate in relation to its content, since the form of resolution is subject in constitutional terms to a principle of jurisdiction (of the Assembly of the Republic), which does not seem to occur in this situation”.
The opinion also identifies “the various possibilities offered by the Rules of Order of the Assembly of the Republic to syndicate the decisions of the President”.
In the order, released to journalists by Chega, the second figure of the state states that “the most important rule for the functioning of the Assembly is the total freedom of expression” and that “under the regimental regulations only the deterioration caused by the injury caused or the offense may justify the intervention of the President with the person speaking”.
He emphasizes, however, that no decision by the Speaker of Parliament “affecting the organization and dynamics of parliamentary work is not syndicated and unattractive; on the contrary, they can all be appealed to the plenary, sovereign decision”.
“It is with this regimental framework in mind that one should seriously consider the legitimacy and consequences of accepting that resolutions are discussed and voted from now on to institutionalize any ‘censorship’ of any ‘behaviour’,” he warns, asking if ” we should even walk that path”.
“This is the parliament we want – that, in addition to criticism, protests and counter-protests, requests for clarifications and answers, defenses of honor and reparation, that is, of the normal democratic parliamentary dialectics, we now allow expressions of appreciation and condemnation of which the terminology evokes historical or contemporary practices typical of dictatorships, against which liberal democracies have always opposed ‘conviction’, of questionable constitutional and regimental conformity”.
Already on the agenda for the first committee meeting, on Wednesday, is the appointment of a rapporteur to prepare the opinion on the “constitutional and regimental adequacy” of the Chega resolution project.
While no decision has been made yet, Chega believes that the request for advice on the adoption of the motion for a resolution constitutes a “new veto” and indicates that it is “another topic to add to the list that the party leader will take to the public,” he asked the President of the Republic and is scheduled for early Friday afternoon.
On Sunday, Chega announced the delivery to parliament of a draft resolution aimed at condemning the conduct of the President of the Assembly of the Republic for lack of impartiality and exemption in the performance of his duties.
Days later, on Thursday, the last plenary session before the holiday work stoppage, delegates left the conference room in protest at the work of Augusto Santos Silva, after he commented on the party leader’s intervention on foreigners in Portugal.
Shortly afterwards, André Ventura admitted in statements to journalists that it had been decided “in a thoughtful way” to leave the plenary in protest against the Speaker of Parliament.
Source: El heraldo
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