PS has already warned that it will vote against if BE insists on requesting a hearing of the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) in a parliamentary committee after the possibility of Christine Lagarde’s participation in the plenary session, as proposed, has been exhausted. BE at the Leadership Conference. Faced with the immediate rejection of the PS, BE bench leader Pedro Filipe Soares announced that he would subpoena the ECB president to the commission.
However, a PS source dismissed the idea: “We don’t study European institutions. This is not the way to treat European institutions.” B.E. wanted to hear from the President of the ECB about the policy of raising interest rates.
“We want the audition to take place urgently, and we would even like this urgency to mean that the problem is about to disappear. But, unfortunately, as Christine Lagarde said in Sintra, the problem will only get worse,” said Pedro Filipe Soares. PS, IL, Chega, and PCP rejected Lagarde’s travel to the plenary, while PSD allowed the possibility of travel to the committee.