The PSD parliamentary group met for the first time this Thursday under the leadership of Joaquim Miranda Sarmento and elected two new bench vice-presidents, Alexandre Pozo and Luis Gomez, with 75% of the vote.
According to an official source in the parliamentary group, 69 of the 77 PSD MPs voted (of those absent, two were former party and parliament chairmen Rui Río and Paulo Mota Pinto), of which 58 voted in favour, nine voted yes and two zeros.
The leader of the JSD, Alexandre Pozo, and the former mayor of Vila Real de Santo de Santo Luis Gomes were thus elected with 75% of the votes of the bench, much higher than the almost 60% received by the leader of the parliament, and the rest of the board of the latter. a week. .
At today’s meeting, first of all, it was necessary to change the internal regulations of the collegium, which from 2020 allowed no more than ten vice-presidents, which, according to the deputies present, was done with a raised hand and unanimously.
A vote was then taken for one of the two new “vices”.
Following the meeting, during which the draft amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Republic were discussed, the final discussion of which was scheduled for September, the new leader of the parliament did not make statements to the media.
Last week, when she presented her list to the leadership of the parliamentary group, Miranda Sarmento had already informed the bench that she intended to change the rules immediately after the election of her leadership, and announced which of the future “deputies” she wanted to see elected.
Alexandre Pozo and Luis Gomes, two supporters of the new SDP president Luis Montenegro, join the ten vice-presidents elected last week.
Of these, four moved from the previous direction – Ricardo Baptista Leite, Catarina Rocha Ferreira, Paulo Ríos de Oliveira and Paula Cardoso – and six new ones: Hugo Carneiro, former assistant general secretary of Rio de Janeiro, and five supporters of the current president, the party is the leader of the district 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 Mendez.
In last week’s elections, 46 out of 77 deputies on the bench voted for Miranda Sarmento’s direction, 20 in favor and 10 against (and one deputy, former SDP chairman Rui Rio, did not vote).
In other words, adding spaces and zeros, we got 30 deputies who did not give their “approval” to the new chairman of the bench, who will have an extended direction of 43 elements (in theory, he had only three more votes than the members who make up the list).
With this result, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento was well below the 92% received by his predecessor Paulo Mota Pinto, the 81% received by Adao Silva in September 2020 and the 89.8% received by former party president Rui Río in November 2020. , 2019, but higher than the result of Fernando Negrao, who in February 2018 was elected leader of the PSD parliamentary group with only 39% of the 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.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
