Deputy of the arrival requested the Transparency Commission to initiate an inquiry against Hugo Soares for facts that will have occurred at the plenary session of 17 September. It was complained that the social democratic parliamentary leader would have promised him “fucking”.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic rejected the appeal filed by the deputy of the arrival Pedro Frazão to the deliberation of the Transparency Commission not to validate his complaint of being threatened by the parliamentary leader of the PSD.
“As CTED decisions (Transparency Commission and Statute of Deputies) given in this matter are not subject to appeal for the president [da Assembleia da República]neither can this be replaced to the Commission regarding its assessment of the admissibility or merit of the requests submitted, “writes José Pedro Aguiar-Branco in his order, which has the date of Thursday and to which the Lusa agency had access.
But, in the Transparency Commission, PSD and PS voted against the admissibility of this complaintbased on the minutes of that plenary session, in which they concluded that Hugo Soares to Pedro Frazão.
Before this decision, the deputy of the arrival appealed to the President of the Assembly of the Republicclaiming that the minutes of the September 17 plenary session “does not strictly reflect the facts that occur, omitting the the content of the protests and counterprotects that classifies as intimidating and embarrassedallegedly configuring threats of physical aggression “.
However, in his order, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco warns that the competence of the President of Parliament “It is limited to the possibility of triggering the inquiry procedure, and it is not possible to have any power of control, direction or replacement of CTED in the exercise of its functions.”
In this sense, the appeal filed by Pedro Frazão, intending that the President of the Assembly of the Republic “replace the decision of CTED with another to determine the opening of an inquiry, No Legal Supportfor translating a performance that goes beyond the powers legally conferred to the President of the Assembly of the Republic “.
In his order, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco Even the following principle: “The Commission acts with full autonomy and functional independence, not subject to instructions or any form of superintendence or hierarchical replacement by the President of the Assembly of the Republic. “
That is, the decision of the non -admissibility committee of the request of Pedro Frazão “It cannot be appealed to the President of the Assembly of the Republicwhich does not have competence to change or reverse commission decisions in this domain “.
José Pedro Aguiar-Branco makes yet another observation, this on the conditions of Parliament, pointing out that “it has been recurrently mentioned that the acoustic conditions of the session room do not facilitate hearing of the aparts and the identification of their authors, especially by the members of the table. “
“The faithful and complete written account of what occurs in each plenary session (…) is made using audio and video records and the inclusion of parliamentary reaction items that are audible and identifiable,” he says.
In the present case of the complaint of the arrival of the arrival, in Parliament it was concluded that “between the initial version (available on September 22 on the intranet page) and the final revision version (available for public reading on the page of the Assembly of the Republic website on September 29)) There is no difference with regard to the excerpt regarding the deputies Hugo Soares and Pedro Frazão“.
“Additionally, the analysis of the audio file used to transcribe the diary and video of the session available on the Parliament channel does not reveal any evidence of lack of authenticity or reliability regarding transcription,” he adds.
