Rodrigo Antunes / LUSA
André Ventura removes Chega banners at Palácio de São Bento
An anonymous complaint was delivered and the Public Ministry is therefore obliged to open an investigation into the party’s protest.
O Public Ministry or investigate what the He arrives held at the Assembly of the Republic, last Friday.
On the morning of the final global vote on the State Budget for 2025, even before the Parliament session, the party hung four stripes against the end of the 5% cut in .
Between the faces of Luís Montenegro, Nuno Melo and Pedro Nuno Santos surrounded by money, the protest read “OE 2025 increases politicians’ salaries – shame”.
André Ventura assured that he would only remove the banners after the Budget vote, but he removed them when the firefighters had already arrived and had already climbed to the windows, from the outside, to remove them.
Inside the Assembly of the Republic, the president of the Assembly of the Republic, Aguiar-Branco, said that Chega “violated a sacred rule of respect for national heritage”, spoke of “political vandalization” and recalled that it is prohibited place any type of advertising on the walls of the São Bento Palace – which has been a national monument since 2002.
Now a anonymous complaint, in which André Ventura is held responsible for violating the statute of deputies and vandalizing the São Bento Palaceinform .
The same complaint requires the end of Ventura’s parliamentary immunity and Pedro Pinto’s hearing as a witnessparliamentary leader of Chega.
With the delivery of this complaint, the Public Ministry is obliged to open an investigation.
It provides, in its Article 213, that it is not possible to “destroy, in whole or in part, damage, deface or render unusable” a public monument – among other cases.
Whoever does so, according to the same article, will be subject to prison up to 5 years or with a penalty of fine up to 600 days.
