The PS announced this Thursday the appointment of a parliamentary debate on the regulation of “lobbying” for January 3, demonstrating its openness to discussing proposals from other political forces.
“Lest they think that there is a lack of interest or that interest has been lost in pursuing this topic to the end, the PS fortunately has a potential schedule for January 3 that will allow all parties to present initiatives, all parties to contribute to the establishment of the regime and will not chain us to a text that is already dated and a mere copy,” said PS deputy Pedro Delgado Alves during a debate on “lobbying” planned by Chega.
According to the Socialist MP, the PS will wait with “all the democratic openness that is necessary in a debate” on such a topic for the remaining political forces to join the Socialists in the January 3 debate, which will take place in about two weeks. until the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic.
“We will not miss the opportunity to know that our election programs, our political proposals, our projects have always led to these debates in the past,” he assured.
Pedro Delgado Alves criticized Chega at the beginning of his speech for bringing to the debate the “law of least effort”, an “uncritical copy”, because “plagiarism as Chega’s working tool” is what the initiative presented today represents.
“What we have here, word for word – Mr. Pedro Filipe Soares was wrong, it is not 95% but 99% – because the only difference is the deletion of three words compared to the replacement text presented by PS, CDS and PAN at the end of the last legislative session. Just like that,” he accused.
The Socialist MP refused to approve the text, which is today known as “outdated, outdated, insufficient.”
“The reason that deception and copying are becoming obvious is that none of the discussions that took place between the end of the last legislature, which could improve legislative initiatives, have a single point in the Chegi draft,” he emphasized .
At the beginning of the debate, Chegi MP Rui Paulo Sousa spoke about “recent court cases that have amazed the government” and stated that “if there were already a regime for registration of interests and rules of transparency applicable to legal entities representing interests”, there would probably be as many cases in recent the years weren’t that long.
The MP stated that “lobbying” “represents one of the ways to increase transparency” and “the right way to bring to the attention of government agencies the public and private interests that are discussed in every decision-making procedure.”
Rui Paulo Sousa emphasized that “this participation must take place in a transparent, certain and secure legal context.”
In a request for clarification, the leader of the BoE parliament noted that, despite criticism of the PS, “more than 95% of what was written [na proposta do Chega]word for word copied from what PS and PSD did.”
Pedro Filipe Soares also said that the approval of this proposal would allow “intermediaries to have an open path” for “free entry” from local authorities to the government and the Assembly of the Republic in order to “put pressure on state representatives.”
In his response, MP Chegi stressed that the party’s proposal “managed to overcome” some problems in the replacement text agreed upon at the last legislative assembly.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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