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Alexandra Leitão leads PS entourage at the OE 2025 meeting
The “mouths” about Ana Sofia Antunes were the limit. Socialists propose changes to the code of conduct of deputies and new sanctions.
O PS will propose changes to the code of conduct of deputies To include New sanctions And it intends that the President of the Assembly of the Republic apologizes to Deputy Ana Sofia Antunes, on behalf of Parliament.
At a press conference, PS parliamentary leader, Alexandra Leitão, insurgent Against the conduct of the Parliamentary Groupnamely as to the one generated at the plenary session on Thursday, when the deputy of the far-right party Diva Ribeiro accused socialist Ana Sofia Antunes, who is blind, of only being able to “intervene in matters that, unfortunately, involve disability.”
Alexandra Leitão argued that “ Environment of verbal violence, provocation and intimidation living in the Assembly of the Republic has to end and it is time to say enough ” to that type of situations, considering that the code conduct of the deputy who is in force “is manifestly insufficient ”.
“The PS will study and propose changes to the code of conduct to make compliance with this and other duties, including the forecast of sanctions as they exist in parliaments from various countries and in the European Parliament”, He anticipated.
Alexandra Leitão also considered that the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco should present, on behalf of Parliament, “an apology to Mrs Ana Sofia Antunes” And in the future everything do “to avoid verbal aggression to which deputies and deputies are subject today in this environment of parliament degradation”.
“Today, at the beginning of the plenary, it would have been a great occasion,” he said.
According to the reports of the parliamentary leader in the PS, after the statements of the deputy of the arrival were heard Apartes, with the microphone off, in which one can hear expressions as “Aberration, this is not a corner, you look dead, you are a drugged”directed to the socialist bench.
