The PSD parliamentary leader said this Thursday, March 19, that the elections for parliament’s external bodies will take place on the new date defined for that purpose, ruling out further postponements and calling for “return to modesty” in the negotiations.
“I am absolutely certain that when new elections for external bodies are scheduled, they will take place”, Hugo Soares told journalists, at the Assembly of the Republic, after leaving a meeting of the PSD bench, after being asked about the negotiations for the election of the parliament’s external bodies.
The social democrat lamented that “too much is being said in the public square about a topic that deserves modesty” and called for “a return to modesty”.
Asked if this means that there will be no more postponements, Hugo Soares repeated the appeals and reiterated that there is “a decision”: “On the day that the president of the Assembly, at the conference of leaders, establishes the deadline and date for the delivery of lists, there will be lists”.
On Monday, the PS justified its request for a further postponement of the elections for parliament’s external bodies because an “adequate solution” had not yet been found for the Constitutional Court, defending the “representation of all political groups”.
The socialist parliamentary group explains that it asked, on Monday, the President of the Assembly of the Republic that the date of elections for external bodies “be discussed again and scheduled at the next Leaders Conference”.
The deadline for submitting candidacies for parliament’s external bodies, including the Council of State, Constitutional Court and Ombudsman, ended on Monday and the elections were scheduled for April 1st.
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