RTP Madeira
Use of low language in the Madeiran Assembly was condemned by the other parties. But the Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Culture had already sought to justify himself.
The Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Culture of Madeira Eduardo Jesus This Thursday filed an apology to the President of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region for the expressions of language that in the debate in the specialty of the island budget.
“I come for the present communication, as president of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, the most dignified representative of all deputies elected in this region, my lament and my excusesin the person of you, for the succeeded during the discussion of the Regional Budget/2025, last Tuesday, ”wrote the ruler in the missive sent to the responsible of the Insular Parliament, Rubine Leal.
“Dumb do car ****”
Concerned are considered expressions of low language Used by the Regional Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Culture on Tuesday, in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, during the debate in the specialty of the Madeiran Government Budget and Investment Plan for 2025.
Among other phrases considered inappropriate in a parliamentary debate, Eduardo Jesus criticized the questions given by PS MP Silvia Silva, to whom he referred to the word “cheerful”. In addition to this, which was the least gravity, the regional secretary Called Deputies “Donkey” and used other expressions less likely to use in a parliamentary debate.
Throughout the session, other insults were heard from the regional secretary, such as “bardamerda” or “clown”, between comments from the secretary as “the question of this girl”, or “dumb of the guy…”.
The situation was criticized by all parties of the position that considered the expressions used a “Insult”, “unqualified” and “unfortunate”arguing that it should submit an apology.
“I note that under no circumstances I wanted to offend the ladies and gentlemen or the institution and that my aparts resulted from the tension of the enthusiastic discussion that usually derive in the parliamentary environment,” says Eduardo Jesus in the same letter sent to Rubine Leal.
But the apology sent by letter arises after a first reaction to the successful, in which Eduardo Jesus justifies the use of these terms with the fact that they “Being in the dictionary“, The Madeira Diário de Notícias. In addition,“ the parliamentary environment has its own characteristics, ”says the responsible for the culture.
During the expressions used by the regional secretary, the PS/Madeira, one of the parties whose deputies were the target of the insults of Eduardo Jesus, announced the presentation of a formal protest to the President of the Madeiran Parliament.
JPP parliamentary leader, Élvio Jesus, considered that the words used were “unqualified” and maintained that there must be “political consequences” of the episode.
In turn, the arrival deputies and IL defended the submission of an apology for the “extremely unhappy behavior” of the regional secretary.
