Constitutionalist Jorge Bacelar Gouveia, a former Social Democratic deputy, is emphatic: “If the Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic believes that an illegal or unconstitutional speech has been delivered by a deputy who lodges a complaint with the Public Prosecutor or the Constitutional Court.” Without commenting on the dispute between the leader of Chega […]
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Santos Silva asks the 1st Commission for advice on Chega’s resolution to censor it
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 […]
Laws passed in parliament. government crushes parties
Of the 242 bills introduced by the parties during this term, only two were passed in a final and global vote. One from the PS and the other from the Liberal Initiative (IL), and actually both on the same subject (freedom of expression online) and resulted in one diploma. Incidentally, Parliament’s website states that of […]
Enough abandoned plenary and aliens law passed without votes
With Chega absent from the vote, the left remaking the device and the right (and the PAN) abstaining, the new aliens law was approved in parliament, in a debate marked by the confrontation between the Chega bank and Augusto Santos . President of the Assembly of the Republic, after André Ventura intervened. In Ventura’s words, […]
Parliament approves new legal regime for foreigners in Portugal
The Assembly of the Republic approved this Thursday, in a final global vote, the new legal regime for foreigners in Portugal, with votes for PS, PCP, BE and Livre, abstentions from PSD, IL and PAN, and the absence of Chega. The deputies of the party led by André Ventura left the meeting room shortly after […]
Tension between Ventura and AR chairman leads Enough to leave the plenary
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 […]
Enough publishes resolution to disapprove President of the Assembly of the Republic
Chega released a motion for a resolution this Sunday in which it plans to condemn the conduct of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, for lack of impartiality and exemption in the performance of his duties. In general lines, Enough deputies accuse Augusto Santos SilvaPS deputy elected by the Fora […]
Airport: PS ‘fails’ Pedro Nuno Santos hearing in parliament
The PS deputies ‘failed’ this Wednesday the requests of the PCP, the Left Bloc and the Liberal Initiative for the hearing of the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, in the Assembly of the Republic, on the new Lisbon airport . The three requests were voted on by the Committee on the Economy, […]
Santos Silva does not say against power or echo of absolute majority PS . to be
The Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic on Tuesday defended his independence in the exercise of his duties, stressing that he is neither against power nor echoing the absolute majority of the PS and refusing to ever favor the socialist bank. This point of view was conveyed by Augusto Santos Silva in statements to […]