The debate on the State of the Nation was postponed to 17 July due to the Prime Minister’s external commitments, and Parliament scheduled elections for members of the Council of State for the following 20 July.
These were the two main decisions taken this Wednesday at a meeting of the leaders’ conference, which also scheduled the next two-week debate for June 26 with the presence of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro.
According to the representative of the conference of parliamentary leaders, Social Democrat MP Jorge Paulo Oliveira, the State of the Nation on July 17 will be the last “great political debate” before parliament adjourns for the summer recess. .
“It was postponed from July 12 to July 17 due to commitments related to the foreign agenda of the Prime Minister,” explained Jorge Paulo Oliveira.
The last plenary session for procedural voting will take place on July 18, and parliamentary committees will work from July 22 to 26 to finalize the theses, urgently review European initiatives or other issues provided for in the Statute of Deputies.
After the summer holidays, work resumes on September 11 with the creation of a permanent commission. The first plenary meeting will take place on September 18.
At today’s meeting of the leaders’ conference, elections of parliamentary representatives to various external bodies, including the State Council, were also scheduled for June 20.
Elections for the five members of the Council of State, who will be appointed by the Assembly of the Republic, were scheduled for May 7, but were postponed.
In the previous legislature, five representatives proposed by the PS and PSD were elected on a joint list (Manuel Alegre, Carlos Cesar, Sampaio da Novoa, Francisco Pinto Balseman and Miguel Cadille), and Chega presented an alternative list in which no one was elected. . If it happens again in this legislature, Chega will be able to elect one of the five candidates to the State Council, since it now includes more than a fifth of the deputies.
According to the constitution, the Council of State is composed of “five citizens elected by the Assembly of the Republic in accordance with the principle of proportional representation for a period corresponding to the duration of the legislative body.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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