Chega’s second parliamentary days will take place between this Sunday and next Monday in Setúbal, where MPs will focus on the constitutional revision proposal the party wants to present in parliament later this month.
The days begin in the afternoon with a speech by party president André Ventura, followed by a debate on the “Constitution and Economic Model of Growth”.
The debate will be attended by deputies Filipe Melo and Rui Afonso, as well as lawyer and researcher Joao Pacheco de Amorim, and will be moderated by the party’s vice president, Marta Trindade.
On Monday, the days begin with a panel titled “What reform for the Portuguese political system” that features constitutionalist Baselar Gouveia, former Social Democrat minister Rui Gomes da Silva and lawyer Raul Soares da Veiga.
Chega parliamentary leader Pedro Pinto and MP Rui Paulo Souza are also participating. Parliamentary Counselor Cristina Rodriguez (former PAN MP) will be responsible for moderation.
The Parliamentary Days continued with a panel on “The Urgency of Justice Reform” moderated by the President of the National Council of Jurisdiction, Rodrigo Taxa, with speeches by the lawyer and television commentator António Pinto Pereira, as well as professor and member of the National Commission for Elections Fernando Silva, as well as deputies Bruno Nunez and Rita Matthias.
After that, the leader of the parliament, Pedro Pinto, will present a proposal to revise the constitution of the party, and the parliamentary days will be closed by the president of the party, Andre Ventura.
In a statement released at the beginning of the month, Chega said that these parliamentary days, the second in two months, will be “solely dedicated to the constitutional review process”, which the party intends to start “in the first half of September”.
The parliamentary days of the far-right party coincide with the days of the PS, which take place on Monday and Tuesday in the Leiria district.
At the beginning of the last days, which took place at the beginning of July in Figueira da Foz (Coimbra), André Ventura announced his intention to start the constitutional review process in September.
The process, he said of the matter, would affect “what the system doesn’t want”, namely life imprisonment, one of the party’s flags, which was included several times in the proposal for discussion in Parliament, but which was not discussed because it was unconstitutional.
The president of the far-right party has said in recent days that he also intends to reduce the number of deputies and political office holders.
Amendments to the Constitution require a two-thirds vote of the Assembly of the Republic. Since the last ordinary review took place more than five years ago, the submission of a review by a draft party automatically opens the process.