Miguel Arruda with his arm raised as if he was doing the Nazi greeting in Parliament
Free Rui Tavares leader accused the former deputy Miguel Arruda on Friday, now not registered in any bench, of having greeted Nazi in Parliament, when he signaled his sense of vote.
Rui Tavares made a question to the table of the Assembly of the Republic to denounce that Miguel Arrudaat least twice, “consciously and deliberately,” he voted for “gesturing the Fascist, Nazi or Roman greeting“.
Miguel Arruda, a deputy elected by the Azores in the last elections, detached himself from this party and went on to the condition of deputy not registered after being accused by the Public Prosecution Service of.
Addressing the “vice” of Parliament Marcos Perestrellosocialist deputy who then presided over the plenary’s work, the free spokesman Rui Tavares maintained that the fact that he had just denounced would be “easily proven by the images of the Assembly of the Republic.”
But it was not necessary to wait for the images of the Assembly of the Republic. The moment quickly began to circulate on social networks, through an image where Miguel Arruda is seen raising his arm in a kind of Nazi greeting.
It belongs to Mario and vote like this. There is a parody too, isn’t it?
– Sofia Pereira (@SofiaPereira7)
“It belongs to Mario and vote like this. There is a parody too, isn’t it?“Wrote in X, the Secretary General of Socialist Youth (JS), alluding to recent statements from.
At stake is a telephone call starring the comedy page “Young right -wing conservativewho managed to talk to Miguel Arruda.
In the call, in which he admits to having a “f*dialect” for being Azorean, the deputy also confesses repeatedly: “I belong to Mario”referring, as it turned out in the continuation of the call, to the leader of Group 1143 Mário Machado.
“I belong to Mario”
– Young conservative right (@jcdedireita)
“And it is a fact that in any European parliament or any parliament in the world has a huge gravitybecause it is an affront to democratic values, ”said Rui Tavares, after denouncing the gesture.
In the answer, Marcos Perestrello confessed that he did not see Miguel Arruda’s gesture and said that, “If it was so, it’s really reprehensible”.
“There are several leaders to do the same… even left”
To follow, Miguel Arruda asked the word to deny have done the Nazi greeting.
“It was just signaling my sense of vote in this way. There are several leaders to do the same… even left, ”he claimed.
Later, the former deputy of the arrival also argued that, being sitting in the last row in the plenary, sometimes the President of the Assembly of the Republic cannot identify his meaning of vote, which is why he stretches his arm.
Words that did not convince Rui Tavares, insisting that the services of the Assembly of the Republic should take the necessary measures “and in writing to summon themselves [Miguel Arruda] to justify your action. ”
Marcos Perestrello sought to end this incident by saying that the table took note of the position of the free manager and that Deputy Miguel Arruda denied having stretched his arm with the intention of doing the Nazi greeting.
Moments later, in statements to journalists, already outside the plenary, Rui Tavares urged the president of the air to bring the theme to the next leadership conference.
For Rui Tavares, the gesture left “absolutely no doubt.” “If we already normalized Nazi greetings in Parliament then There is nothing left to normalize“He considered.
However, in statements to, Miguel Arruda admitted that “like such a gesture seen from another perspective or angle can generate this sensation“, Stating that he will” email the President of the Assembly of the Republic to question him as he wants to start voting. “
Unique against vote of regret by Maria Teresa Horta
This Friday morning, the Assembly of the Republic approved a regret vote for the death of the poet MARIA TERESA HORTArecalling it as a figure “whose civic work and commitment created ballast in the country’s culture.”
Interestingly, this initiative only had the vote against Miguel Arruda.
The vote of regret, presented by the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, recalls that Maria Teresa Horta, who died on Monday at the age of 87, was a poet, writer and journalist, and praises her “life course marked by resistance to fascism and activism in defense of democracy and woman’s emancipation. ”
The deputies expressed their “deep grief” for the death of the poet, “figure whose work and whose civic commitment created ballast in the culture of the country.”
“The legacy that leaves us in literature and poetry, journalism and public cause will continue to mark our ordinary life,” the text ends.
Born in Lisbon in 1937, Maria Teresa Horta attended the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, was leader of ABC Cine-Clube and active militant in the movements of female emancipation.
