The PSD parliamentary group will meet for the first time under the leadership of Joaquim Miranda Sarmento on the 21st, with the internal rules of the bench amended and two new vice-presidents elected.
According to the notice sent to the deputies, to which Lusa had access, the meeting will take place on the morning of the last plenary session before the holidays, at 11.00.
On the agenda is a change in the internal regulations of the Judicial Collegium in the article on the maximum allowable number of “vices”, which currently stands at ten.
In the new proposal, the number of vice presidents could vary from four to twelve vice presidents, a rule that was in place prior to the previous revision of the provision in March 2020.
It is also assumed that after this change, elections will be held immediately at the meeting as new “deputies” of deputies Luis Gomes and Alexandru Posu.
Miranda Sarmento has already informed the panel of judges that she intends to make this change as soon as his board was elected, which happened on Wednesday with about 60% of the vote.
In a press release sent by the PSD on Monday, which had previously been sent to MPs, the economist said – along with the list he proposed for voting – that immediately after the election “an amendment to the internal regulations of the bench and the names of future new” vices “were also indicated” who will be elected.
Although he received one of the lowest votes for the bench direction – only Fernando Negrao’s lesser in 2018, with 39% of the vote – the new SDP parliamentary leader said on Wednesday he was “satisfied with the vote” and refused to be weakened or enter into comparisons with the numbers obtained by his predecessors.
Of the 77 MPs on the bench, 46 voted in favor of Miranda Sarmento’s direction, 20 voted and 10 voted against (and one MP, former PSD President Rui Río, did not vote).
Former SDP parliamentary leader Paulo Mota Pinto was elected on 7 April with a positive vote of 71 out of 77 Social Democratic deputies (92%), two whites and two invalids, with two deputies absent from the vote.
The day before the start of the PSD Congress, which approved the new leadership, Paulo Mota Pinto announced that he would call an early election for the direction of the bench after Luis Montenegro indicated that he intended to change the direction of the bench.
Initially, ten vice-presidents were elected (the maximum allowed by the current regulations, and three more than Paulo Mota Pinto’s seven), and four remained from the current direction – Ricardo Baptista Leite, Catarina Rocha Ferreira, Paulo Ríos de Oliveira and Paula Cardoso – – and six new ones: Hugo Carneiro, former assistant secretary general of Rio, and five supporters of the current party president Luis Montenegro – leader of the district of Santarém João Moura, leader of the district of Leiria, Hugo Oliveira, former mayor of Espinho, Joaquim Pinto Moreira and deputies Andrei Neto and Clara Marques Méndez .
In the election of Miranda Sarmento, adding spaces and zeros, there were 30 deputies who did not give their “approval” to the new bench chairman, who will have an extended direction of 43 elements (theoretically, he only had three more votes than the members making up the list).
With this result, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento was below the 81% received by Adao Silva in September 2020 and the 89.8% received by former party president Rui Río in November 2019, but higher than the result of Fernando Negrao, who in February 2018 , he was elected leader of the SDP parliamentary group with only 39% of the vote.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
