Boco de Esquerda considered this Wednesday “a sad day for democracy” due to the election of Pacheco de Amorim from Chega as vice-president of the parliament, accusing him of participation “in the terrorist organizations that opposed April 25.”
“If today there is this vice-president in parliament, it is because the PSD, after all the confusion it created, after all the agreement that it said existed and no longer exists, after all the political deadlock that ended mutual understanding with the PS, voted for Vice-President Chegi in the Assembly of the Republic,” accused BE leader Mariana Mortagua in statements to journalists in Parliament.
Mariana Mortagua expressed regret that the parliament elected, although not with BE votes, “a vice president who was a member of and participated in terrorist organizations that opposed April 25 and the democracy that this country achieved 50 years ago.”
“This is a sad day for democracy, and the opposition of the Left Bloc should be noted,” he stressed.
The BU leader criticized that the agreement between the PS and the SDP, which broke the deadlock in the parliamentary presidential elections, did not solve “two political problems.”
“In the Assembly of the Republic there is now a Vice-President of the Chega Party, a Vice-President who has a political background like everyone else in this Assembly of the Republic, but he is probably the only one who has a political background that runs through terrorist organizations that always fought against democracy,” he began with criticism.
Another aspect that was not resolved by this agreement between the two largest parties “is the political problem that exists in the country,” Mortagua added.
“There is a right that is unable to guarantee stability, any institutional or political solution for the country and which is hostage to the extreme right, which wants to use democratic institutions without any respect for them as instruments of its ongoing political and party struggle. for insulting, for belittling these institutions, parliament, for blocking parliament,” he complained.
To journalists, the vice-presidents of Chega and Illinois, Diogo Pacheco de Amorim and Rodrigo Saraiva, respectively, expressed satisfaction with their election, stressing that normal life had been restored in the Assembly of the Republic.
Pacheco de Amorim noted that with his election, “the existing distortion has been corrected.”
“In recent years we have felt an atmosphere of degradation of political institutions, and it was necessary to send a signal to Portugal that democratic normality must be restored,” said Rodrigo Saraiva.
Deputies Teresa Morais (NSD), Marcos Perestrello (PS), Diogo Pacheco de Amorim (Chega) and Rodrigo Saraiva (IL) were today elected vice-presidents of the Council of the Assembly of the Republic.
Teresa Morais, the deputy elected by Setúbal and nominated by the PSD, had 140 votes in favor, 86 empty votes and one zero vote.
Marcos Perestrello, former President of the Defense Commission, elected by the Lisbon circle on the PS list, had 169 votes in favor, 57 empty and one zero.
After the failure of the elections for the last legislative body, Diogo Pacheco de Amorim was elected today as Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic with 129 votes in favor, 97 blanks and one zero.
Former IL parliamentary leader Rodrigo Saraiva received 144 votes in favor, 82 empty and one zero.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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