The PSD parliamentary group will meet on Tuesday morning for the first meeting of the Collegium of the XVI Legislative Assembly, which is to call the election of the group’s leadership, with Hugo Soares as the candidate for the position.
A Social Democratic Party source told Lusa that the meeting will take place shortly after the first plenary session, scheduled for 10 a.m., and that it usually lasts a few minutes as it only serves to confirm a possible credentials commission, after which work will resume at 3 p.m. when a new chairman of parliament is elected.
The meeting will bring together for the first time 78 new PSD deputies, including Prime Minister-designate and party president Luis Montenegro, who led Lisbon’s list in the March 10 legislative elections and will take on the role of deputy at the first session of the XVI Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, and will then be sworn in as head of government on April 2.
This Monday, an official PSD source confirmed to Lusa that the PSD Secretary General Hugo Soares will be the candidate for the post of leader of parliament and should replace Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, who has been president of the college since July 2023, and that the former Minister of Defense José Pedro Aguiar-Branco will be the candidate of party for the post of President of the Assembly of the Republic.
According to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Republic, the election of the President of Parliament takes place at the first plenary session of the legislative body, and “the candidate who receives an absolute majority of the votes of the current deputies” is elected. .
The Democratic Alliance coalition (uniting the PSD/SDS-NP/PPM) won the elections on March 10, and the leader of the PSD was appointed prime minister by the President of the Republic. Luis Montenegro will present his government on March 28, with the inauguration scheduled for April 2.
In the new parliament, the SDP will have 78 deputies (one more than in the previous legislature), the PS will also have 78 (42 fewer), Chega increases the number of parliamentarians from 12 to 50, IL retains eight deputies and BU already has five deputies. , while PCP falls from six to four. Livre grows from one to four, and PAN retains its only deputy. CDS-PP returns to parliament with two deputies.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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