José Pedro Aguiar-Branco is the new President of Parliament. The Social Democrat won 160 votes in the fourth vote this Wednesday. The new president will replace socialist Augusto Santos Silva.
The results received a standing ovation from the SDP and SDS-NP, most of the sitting PS MPs and some IL MPs. Before delivering his speech, the new Speaker of Parliament greeted parliamentary leaders from all benches.
In the same elections, Chegi MP Rui Paulo Sousa stood, receiving 50 votes, with 18 blank votes still registered, in a vote in which 228 of the 230 MPs took part.
First performance
Breaking the institutional impasse, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco called on “all parliamentary groups to rethink the election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) for the sake of democracy” and gave the first clues on how he intends to implement this. his mandate.
“You don’t elect the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan so that he more or less likes what is said at the plenary session. (…) You do not elect the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in order to debate,” he said. “The work of parliament does not have to be turned into a television program,” he added.
The Social Democrat also called for political stability. “The Portuguese chose us to be here for the next four years. We have to justify it,” he said.
Author: morning Post This Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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