Pacheco de Amorim elected vice president of Parliament

With 145 votes in favor, 68 against and 12 nulls. Deputy of the arrival of Filipe Melo also obtained election as deputy secretary of the parliamentary table.

After having the same election on June 3, the deputy of the arrival, Diogo Pacheco de Amorim, He was elected this Tuesday for vice president of Parliament.

The deputy of the arrival managed 145 votes in favor, 68 against and 12 null In a total of 229 voters, thus surrounding the veto of the beginning of the month.

Pacheco de Amorim, 76, returns to the position he held in the last legislature. Also Filipe Melodeputy of the same party, was elected deputy secretary of the Parliament Bureau.

In the previous vote, neither had managed to gather enough votes to be elected. The election was failed by only one votethe candidate obtained 115 votes in favor, 115 whites and zero nulls. Filipe Melo had 113 votes in favor, 117 whites and zero null, failing the election for three votes.

André Ventura described the situation at the time as a “low betrayal”.

“There was an extended understanding and I thought that this understanding was extended to the three main forces represented in Parliament. It is not understood, in a party that is the second largest of Parliament, that the other parties must send in everything. try to make a sanitary cord To a party that the Portuguese chose, ”said the arrival leader.

The only candidate of the arrival that was elected on June 3 was Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro, which was reappointed as secretary of the table of the Assembly of the Republic. It had 131 votes in favor, 99 whites and zero nulls.

It is recalled that the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, was reelected with the 202 votes, behind only Jaime Gama, who obtained 204 votes in 2009.

This Tuesday, Parliament The Government Program.