The representative of the republic in the Azores will not take a position on the termination of parliamentary agreements with the regional government, leaving the Legislative Assembly to continue its work and “solve the problem,” a cabinet source told Lusa.
In response to a Lusa inquiry about the Parliamentary Bar Agreements broken this Wednesday by the Liberal Initiative MP and the Independent MP with the PSD/CDS-PP/PPM Coalition Executive Director, the Office of the Representative of the Republic (RR) said that “so far” not a single position or declaration signed by the parliamentarians fell into the hands of Pedro Catarino.
After learning about the facts through the media, the RR will leave the regional Legislative Assembly “to continue its work and solve the problem.”
A source in Pedro Catarino’s office also indicated that RR chose to “take no position on the matter” and “not interfere in the affairs of the regional legislature”, allowing events to “take their course”.
The three parties that make up the regional government (SDP, CDS-PP and PPM) have 26 deputies in the legislature and now only have parliamentary support for an MP up to Cheg, thus adding 27 seats.
Previously, with the parliamentary support of an independent deputy and the elected Liberal Initiative, they had 29 mandates, which allowed the executive branch to manage an absolute majority.
Now there are 30 deputies in the opposition, and before there were 28.
The Legislative Assembly of the Azores has 57 deputies and the current legislature has 25 deputies from PS, 21 from PSD, three from CDS-PP, two from PPM, two from BE, one from Liberal Initiative, one from PAN, one from Enough and independent MP (formerly Enough).
The PS won the regional legislative elections on October 25, 2020, but lost the absolute majority it had enjoyed for 20 years, electing 25 deputies.
On November 7, the representative of the republic nominated the leader of the PSD, José Manuel Boleiru, for the presidency of the regional government, justifying this decision by saying that the PSD/CDU-PP/PPM coalition received support that gave it an absolute majority in the vote. legislative assembly.
Pedro Catarino stressed at the time that the PS did not represent “any government coalition”, despite winning the elections.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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