“It never crossed the PS’s mind, at a time when it was the PSD that had fewer votes or that, eventually, had less weight, to say that it was left out of the equation or that this idea of there being an effort for balance disappears and, therefore, it is only regrettable about this degree of acrimony that was in those statements. It doesn’t really help anything and only makes the institutional situation worse”, he lamented.
From the perspective of the socialist leader, “if we are actually trying to find a solution, that is burning all bridges and not showing a clear interest in doing so”, that is, finding a solution to the problem.
“And then, the tone. I think it is a tone that is, at all, not very constructive, and a Minister of Parliamentary Affairs is, of all people, the one who, in theory, should be the most diplomatic of the government members, because he is the one who has to talk to all the oppositions”, he defended.
Delgado Alves considered that today “was not extraordinarily pleasant from this perspective”, refusing that it was a matter of “states of mind or the PS being more or less uncomfortable”.
“That’s not the point at all. Now if, in fact, it’s pampering for Chega and then treating the Socialist Party in this way, that is, there’s very little left for us to be able to give ourselves respect”, he condemned.
For the PS deputy, “it was essential that the PSD stopped to think a little about what is on the table”. “And what is asked for is nothing more than to maintain a balance that, over 40 years, has preserved the Court, has preserved the dignity of the institutions”, he said, remembering that the election of judges to the STF “has merited 40 years of balance and consensus so that the choice is a reflection of parties that are knowledgeable and defenders of the Constitution”.
What worries socialists, according to Delgado Alves, “is that there is a Constitutional Court that is capable of interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the values of the Constitution”.
“And it seems to us that the best way to do this is, basically, asking the parties that are committed to the Constitution what are the profiles of judges that should be there”, he said.
The PS deputy stated that “the PSD has days when it is very assertive in saying that it does not talk to Chega and that Chega is a problem”.
“Then you will negotiate so many other things almost every day with Chega that it leaves a person stunned,” he said.
Abreu Amorim spoke at the CDS-PP Parliamentary Conference, referring to the PS as “the great conservative force in this country”.
“They resist change with all their strength, they always prefer inaction to transformation”, he maintained.
These statements come two days before the AR decides the new date for elections for external bodies.
At issue is the impasse for the election of external bodies for the Assembly of the Republic, with disagreements between the PSD and PS having been made public in recent days regarding the nomination of names for the Constitutional Court, which already led to a meeting this week between the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the leader of the PS, José Luís Carneiro, but which was inconclusive.
Of the three judges who need to be replaced, two were nominated by the PSD and one by the PS, and the possibility is open for Chega, now the second largest parliamentary party, to enter this body and for the socialists to be left out of this election.
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