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The president of the Assembly of the Republic repeatedly asked parliamentary leaders this Thursday that all deputies who did not want to be vaccinated against covid-19 inform it before Friday, according to the summit of the conference of leaders.
According to the summary of this meeting, released Tuesday night, the PSD parliamentary leader, Adão Silva, defended that the vaccination of the deputies “was not urgent and the priority in the Assembly of the Republic should be limited to the minimum of minimums.” “, while the president of the BE bench, Pedro Filipe Soares, considered that” the deputies could wait. “
The question was posed by the president of the Assembly of the Republic, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, in this meeting held last Thursday, saying that he had received a letter from the prime minister, António Costa, to which he intended to respond “on Friday afternoon. “presenting” a hierarchical nominative list according to clear and objective criteria “for vaccination in this sovereign body.
Ferro Rodrigues “asked the parliamentary groups to give him a vote of confidence to draw up this list of precedents,” stating that “he does not intend for this issue to drag.”
The PS, through deputy Pedro Delgado Alves, gave “its agreement that the president of the Assembly of the Republic be in charge of this response”, and the summary of the direct responses of the remaining seats to this request for “a confidence vote “does not appear”.
João Cotrim Figueiredo, who is the only deputy of the Liberal Initiative (IL), therefore, without a parliamentary group, expressed “total confidence in the President of the Assembly of the Republic for this task”, despite not wanting to be vaccinated in this stage.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic said that, after António Costa’s initiative was known, some deputies, such as Cotrim Figueiredo, had told him that they did not intend to be included in the vaccination list, “so he asked everyone . that the deputies with identical positions report it to their office until the next day, Friday, until the end of the plenary session ”.
In the midst of this debate, the president of the Assembly of the Republic “insisted that the deputies who did not want to be vaccinated say so”, reads the summary signed by the secretary of the Board and deputy of the PS Maria da Luz Rosinha. .
To close this matter, Ferro Rodrigues said “that he will send the list of nominees to the Prime Minister the following day, Friday” and, again, “he insisted that the deputies who did not want to be vaccinated must say so before the end of the session.” that day “.
On Friday night an initial list of 50 deputies to be vaccinated as a priority was published in the media, but meanwhile 15 of them – 12 from the PSD, including the party president, Rui Rio, and three from the PS – left. the list for not wanting to be vaccinated at this stage.
At the leaders’ conference, the president of the PSD parliamentary group, Adão Silva, warned that the vaccination plan is “a very delicate matter” and criticized the prime minister’s letter for proposing, in his opinion, “an unacceptable situation due to latitude. “. of those covered and to create undesirable controversy and a strained relationship with citizens at a particularly difficult time of the pandemic. “
Also according to the official report of the meeting, Adão Silva “stressed that the deputies should not have priority in this matter”, claiming that “apparently in the rest of Europe the parliaments did not have any priority”, concluding that vaccination in the Assembly of the Republic “There was no urgency” and that the priority in this sovereign body “should be limited to the minimum of minimums.”
Ferro Rodrigues “replied that the heads of sovereign organizations had been vaccinated in other countries and added that the Prime Minister’s letter referred to essential services for the functioning of the State, reinforcing that the Assembly of the Republic cannot cease to be considered a service essential”. “.
As a criterion for vaccination in parliament, the president of the Assembly of the Republic proposed to follow “the precedence of the State Protocol, in parallel with the d’Hondt method applicable to each circumscription, that is, in the case of the deputies who formed part of the same position for precedence purposes. “
The vice president of the PS bench, Pedro Delgado Alves, also suggested the appointment of the deputies who are part of the Permanent Commission of the Assembly of the Republic, a body that replaces the Plenary on vacation.
The deputy Paula Santos, of the PCP, named as priorities the members of the Table, the conference of leaders and the Permanent Commission, as well as the parliamentary officials that she considered necessary.
Faced with these interventions, Ferro Rodrigues said “that he would not fail to indicate on the list that the members of the Permanent Commission would be prepared.”
The parliamentary leader of the CDS-PP, Telmo Correia, replied that “there could be more reasonable criteria of age and health”, arguing “that the precedents of the State Protocol were more suitable for ceremonies.”
The president of the PAN, Inês Sousa Real, declared that she “understood the criteria” proposed by Ferro Rodrigues, but advocated that “risk groups are also taken into account in the Assembly of the Republic.”
Pedro Filipe Soares, from BE, distanced himself from the process, arguing that “priority should be given to essential services to attend to COVID-19 and senior public officials” and that “deputies can wait.”
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