Miguel Arruda has not yet had a low medical (and risks losing his mandate for absences)

The deputy risks losing his mandate if he does not present the low average before reaching the limit of four unjustified absences.

The former bundle deputy Miguel Arruda, who is in the center of the controversy over the stolen airport bags, still did not formally present the low medical to the Assembly of the Republic.

The parliamentarian publicly announced last week that he was going to ask for low medical due to the psychological problems caused by mediaism and public exposure of the case of bags, stating that his Family was “a shard”. The decision to request low would be formalized after a medical appointment in Ponta Delgada.

But, according to the formal request of low it has not yet been delivered and the Azorean deputy risk losing mandate due to the accumulation of unjustified absences. According to the regiment of deputies, the limit of unjustified absences is four, opening a process that can culminate with the loss of mandate when this limit is reached.

It is recalled that for two months, between October and December, Arruda was caught by surveillance cameras that registered alleged thefts of its 19 bags At airports, during flights between Lisbon and Ponta Delgada.

The images show the deputy to circulate between the luggage rugs, especially on non-schengen international flights, where the bags are often left without supervision. According to the prosecution, Arruda selected the bags apparently more valuablelike a high value samsonitis and a pink bag, both later registered as their own for travel.

In the early hours of one of the incidents in November, Arruda will have left the airport with six bags, although only one was yours. One of the stolen bags was in tones forgrown, which would have been seen in the corridors of the Assembly of the Republic and was the target of joking comments from the arrival of the arrival.

Authorities also discovered a Conta na vinted where Arruda allegedly sold stolen clothes and were found several bags in her office in Parliament, as did perfumes and powerbanks.

The controversy led to the arrival to remove political confidence from Miguel Arruda, who is now a non-regular deputy.