The Assembly of the Republic, elected in legislative elections on March 10, will meet for the first time on Tuesday and will elect a new president of parliament, as well as vice-presidents and secretaries.
The first plenary session of the 16th Legislative Assembly, which represents nine parties, one more than the previous one, CDS-PP, is divided into two parts: morning and afternoon.
In the first part, at 10 a.m., when 230 new parliamentarians will be elected on March 10, a commission to verify the credentials of the elected deputies will be approved at a meeting that usually lasts a few minutes.
Since at the moment the President of the AR is still not elected and the outgoing President Augusto Santos Silva is not an MP, the party with the most votes, the PSD, will have to invite one of the outgoing vice-presidents who were re-elected, or the MP who received the most votes, former member, interim manager of the work.
The PSD will invite PCP deputy António Filipe to chair the first session, as he is considered the oldest parliamentarian serving in the Assembly of the Republic.
After the approval of the resolution determining the future composition of the credentials commission, work will be interrupted and resumed again at 15.00, when a new chairman of parliament will be elected.
Until the end of Monday afternoon, only the candidacy proposed by the PSD of former Defense Minister José Pedro Aguiar-Branco was known, which Chega expressed his intention to support, saying that the Social Democrats would also give instructions to become their candidates. the positions of “deputies” and secretaries of the Management Board were approved.
The election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic is carried out by secret ballot, and deputies are called in alphabetical order to vote at the ballot box in the center of the meeting room.
After voting is completed, the session is paused again to determine the results.
According to the regulations, “the candidate who receives an absolute majority of the votes of the current deputies” is elected president of the Assembly of the Republic.
“If no candidate receives that many votes, a second vote is immediately held in which only the two candidates with the most votes who have not withdrawn compete. If no candidate is elected, the process resumes,” the statement said. rules .
Today there will also be elections for the remaining members of the Council of the Assembly of the Republic, which, in addition to the president, includes four vice-presidents, four secretaries and four deputy secretaries, as well as the Board of Directors.
The new President of the Assembly of the Republic will speak, followed by speeches from parliamentary groups.
For the first time, deputies will also have to sign a term of office in which they will solemnly confirm that they will faithfully perform the functions entrusted to them, defend, respect and enforce the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
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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