Isabel Moreira, PS deputy, denounced the behavior of Filipe Melo, from arrival, stating that “there are limits” in Parliament. The President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Aguiar-Branco, said he did not see this provocation.
PS deputy Isabel Moreira complained on Thursday that the deputy secretary of the Assembly of the Republic Filipe Melo of the arrival, “sent kisses” during the plenary, and the president of Parliament said he will refer the situation to the Transparency Commission.
“Mr. President, the deputy secretary who is on his left [Filipe Melo] He is making gestures with his mouth sending me kisses and doing so with his finger on his nose, doing ‘xiu’, as he says, does not count, “said the deputy, who stressed,” There are boundaries, Mr. President, there are even boundaries. “
The PS deputy asked the word to make this display to the table during a debate on fires and firefighters, scheduled for arrival. Filipe Melo, deputy secretary, was sitting at the Assembly of the Republic table, to the left of the president, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic said he did not see this behavior and that the Transparency and Statute Commission of Deputies “must have to pronounce.”
“Registration and I will make the proper shipping to the commission,” he said.
“Absolute disrespect for the operation of the house”
Also Jorge Pinto, from Livre, stated that the gestures of the deputy and deputy secretary of the table of the Assembly of the Republic “were checked today, they were checked yesterday [quarta-feira]and is an absolute disrespect for the functioning of this house. “
Deputy Pedro Delgado Alves, also from the PS, said that the Bureau is an organ of the Assembly of the Republic, who “has an impartial driving function of the work, binds all its members” and can meet to discuss the “inappropriate, unacceptable behavior of one of its members, who calls into question impartiality in conducting the work”.
“I think it is within your reach, if you conclude, and I think it is patent, documentary demonstrable, that one of the table members is not up to your duties, which is replaced by the session of another member of the table that can fulfill and ensure it,” proposed the socialist.
José Pedro Aguiar-Branco indicated that this analysis will be done “in due time and in due place”.
The debate followed after this incident and Filipe Melo continued to sit at the table of the Assembly of the Republic.