The SDP will have six chairmen of parliamentary committees, including constitutional affairs, the PS will have five, one of which is on budget and finance, and Chega will head the defense, education and local government committees.
This distribution between the PSD, PS and Chega of the 14 chairmen of the standing parliamentary committees was handed over to the Lusa agency today by the Social Democratic MP Hugo Carneiro, who coordinated the working group appointed for this purpose by the conference of parliamentary leaders.
At the beginning of each legislative assembly, the posts of chairmen of parliamentary committees are always allocated in proportion to the weight of each house in the group of 230 deputies, and also taking into account the structure of the current government.
In this legislature, the PSD parliamentary group will appoint the presidents of the committees on constitutional affairs, European affairs, agriculture, environment and energy, economy and transparency.
The PS will have one less position than the SDP and will chair the parliamentary committees on foreign affairs, budget and finance, health, labor and culture.
For the first time, the Chega, the third largest group in the Assembly of the Republic, will chair three committees including national defence, education and local government.
On Wednesday, the representative of the leadership conference, Social Democratic lawmaker Jorge Paulo Oliveira, said that the 14 standing parliamentary committees of the current legislature have already been created and could be officially approved this Friday.
“This work is almost complete, and the 14 parliamentary committees that already existed in the previous legislature will be retained, which means that the new organic law of the government is very close to the previous one,” said a representative of the leadership conference.
There are only two significant changes to note regarding the organization of the 14 standing parliamentary committees compared to what was in effect in the previous legislature. Government management now returns to the Budget and Finance Committee; and the 13th Commission, which had a long name and covered areas such as administrative modernization, is now called exclusively the Commission for Territorial Cohesion and Local Government.
This Commission on Territorial Cohesion and Local Government will also include the area of public funds, which was previously the responsibility of the Parliamentary Commission on Economics.