The President of the Assembly of the Republic said on Tuesday that commissions of inquiry exist to perform supervisory functions and are therefore always a positive act in a democracy.
On the sidelines of the “100 Years of BIAL – Shaping the Future” conference in Porto, he questioned whether the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of Portuguese-Brazilian twins treated with the drug Zolgensma at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, to avoid making a bad impression on parliament, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco rejected this idea.
“No, parliamentary committees exist to perform an important watchdog function in our democracy and therefore the establishment of an inquiry committee is always a positive act in our democracy,” he stressed.
Aguiar-Branco complained that parliament only receives more attention during commissions of inquiry.
“There is a lot of work going on in parliament beyond the commissions of inquiry, which clearly shows the importance that parliament has in solving the problems of the Portuguese, and the commission of inquiry is part of that, a special part,” he stressed.
The purpose of the commission of inquiry is to scrutinize situations of particular importance, so “it will never be a bad thing for democracy and parliament if this kind of work is carried out,” he insisted.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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