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Luís Montenegro and Maria Lúcia Amaral at the headquarters of the National Authority of Emergency and Civil Protection
Proposals of arrival and PCP unanimously approved. Right does not understand the position of the socialists, after declarations of Carneiro.
The Assembly of the Republic approved unanimously on Wednesday, requests to hold a extraordinary debate in the Permanent Commission, with the Prime Minister, next Wednesday afternoon, about the coordination of the fight against fires.
As proposals do He arrives e do PCP they were vote on a extraordinary meeting of the Leaders Conference and approved by unanimity, The president of the Assembly of the Republic told Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco at the end of the meeting.
The debate will take place next Wednesday, the 27th, at 15h00.
Aguiar-Branco explained that the Prime Minister “expressed the intention of being In the Permanent Commission ”and that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Maria Lúcia Amaral, may also be present if this is the intention of the government.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic considered it normal for this debate to take place in Parliament, which “it is par excellence where these matter can be treated in a serene, democratic way” and where the government is scrutinated by the “representatives of the Portuguese people”.
About this debate should not have happened earlier, Aguiar-Branco stated that all parliamentary groups “could do it sooner, now or later” and that this was the moment understood by parties as opportune for this discussion.
“In other moments past, where there were also dramatic situations, these debates did not happen of this nature here at the Assembly. So I think it’s commendable, it’s positive that you can make this debate in Parliament and next week here we will all be for the same, ”he said.
A photo of Ventura
The PSD parliamentary leader argued that the government’s image in the management of fires “does not need to be clean” and ensured that social democrats have no regrets about the Pontal Festival.
Speaking to journalists, Hugo Soares defended the differences between the performances of previous socialist executives, based, said in a show-off of politicians in the theater of operations “without any preparation to do” and the current government, which opted for an I“Conference, but very proximity”not fail to “coordinate what is happening in Portugal”.
About criticism of the realization of Pontal Party With the country burning, Hugo Soares assured that there was no regrets with the holding of the social democratic event, adding that the prime minister “left immediately after his intervention, having not participated in any party.” “Those who criticized the prime minister to have spoken to the country at Pontal are those who now think this debate should happen now, during the period of fires,” he said.
The Social Democrat also accused the PS leader, José Luís Carneiro, for “criticizing the Pontal meeting at the door of the Sardine Party in Portimão” and the president of the arrival, André Ventura, for “criticizing a trip to the beach” of Montenegro and later publishing a Photo on social networks in which he showed that he is enjoying his summer vacation.
“I don’t criticize them, what I ask for is coherence And sense of respect for those who, discreetly, but very closely, are coordinating the fight against fires in Portugal, ”he said.
PS had said no
João Almeida, deputy of the CDS-PP, praised the availability of Luís Montenegro to be heard in the Assembly of the Republic, stressing that “no other government was made available to come to Parliament to do what the prime minister will do.”
The centrist also criticized the socialist bench for considering the intention to hear the prime minister, stating that the PS “Opposition in bad” “Be the only ones who don’t want the debate”.
On Tuesday, José Luís Carneiro said that the PS would vote against these requests for debate: “The PS is against the Chicana Political, at a time when the fires are fought that put into question people’s lives and their heritage,” said José Luís Carneiro.
The next day, he voted for: “The PS Secretary-General said that this meeting is extemporaneous-position we maintain. The only thing we change is that, from the moment the Prime Minister and the government said they would be available To come, and who wanted to come to clarify, the PS does not vote against a time when the government says it comes to the Assembly of the Republic to provide clarification. Keeping everything we said. No, we didn’t change position, ”said Eurico Brilhante Dias, the socialist parliamentary leader.
Pedro Pinto, Parliamentary Leader of the arrival, does not realize: “It fits question the PS what you are doing. We know what they did, or what they have not done in recent years. In Civil Protection he put a octopus, a socialist web to command civil protection in Portugal, pushed the firefighters from the fires and forgot the interior of the country. It is complicit of what is happening in Portugal. What happens in Portugal is terrorism ”.
“The PS will say everything you can say to try to justify the unjustifiable,” added João Almeida of CDS-PP.
