The Attorney General of the Republic, Lucilia Gago, will be heard by the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs on September 11, the first regular meeting of this committee after the summer break.
The date of the hearing was first agreed upon by the Constitutional Affairs Committee, and later the Attorney General of the Republic announced that she had accepted the proposal.
Earlier this month, after the approval of requests from PAN and the Bloc Esquerda, Lucilia Gago gave the opportunity to speak at a hearing in Parliament, but asked that the hearing only take place after the completion of the 2023 report of the Ministry of Public Affairs, “in just a few weeks.”
“The Attorney General of the Republic has already informed the Commission on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees of his willingness to accept the invitation to the hearing that it sent to him,” the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) said in response to Luce.
On the 3rd, Parliament approved, without a vote, the request of the PAN and the Left Bloc to appoint the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Lucilia Gago, to be heard by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the actions of the Ministry of State, and this was then requested as a matter of urgency.
In the case of the request of the Bloc de Esquerda, which only merited Chega’s abstention, the text stated that the Attorney General of the Republic should be heard “as a matter of urgency regarding the institutional presentation of the annual report on the activities of the Ministry of State.”
Another idea, in the opinion of the majority of deputies, is that the hearings with Lucilia Gago should take place behind open doors, in the presence of journalists.
On Tuesday, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, said that the Attorney General of the Republic should have spoken out earlier and in Parliament, and not in an interview with RTP.
Speaking to reporters, Aguiar-Branco said that if this public intervention by Lucilia Gago “had happened much earlier,” there would have been “less reason to make decisions that were disproportionate or unreasonable in relation to the actions of the prosecutor’s office.”
“The more of this that happens there, the more confidence we would have in the justice sector,” he added.
The Speaker of Parliament also stressed that “it would have been better” if his speech had taken place in Parliament, since it is “the place of greatest dignity in the organs of sovereignty” and “the place where the representatives of the people are.”
“Like other prosecutors in the past, they answered questions, answered what they thought they could answer, and what they thought they couldn’t answer, they didn’t answer. And I would have preferred the first intervention to be in parliament,” he said.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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