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The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Ferro Rodrigues, will request an “urgent opinion from the legal services” of the parliament on the suspension of mandate and replacement as deputy of the leader and presidential candidate of Chega, André Ventura.
According to a parliamentary source, the Statute of Deputies is in dispute, which only provides for suspension for “serious illness”, “maternity or paternity leave” or “due to judicial process”, but also the electoral law of the President of the Republic , which determines that competitors “have the right to exemption from the exercise of their respective functions, whether public or private.”
The president of Chega asked Ferro Rodrigues on Monday to suspend his mandate and replace him with his vice president Pacheco Amorim during the January electoral campaign and also cited several articles of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic to argue in favor of the suspension of the mandate. and its replacement.
I request the suspension of the mandate of a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic as of January 1, 2021 and until the end of the elections to the Presidency of the Republic, on January 24, 2021, automatically considering the suspension in the event that happen. the existence of a second electoral round and the party requesting to be a party to this dispute ”, reads the Ventura text to which Agência Lusa had access.
Ventura wants Pacheco Amorim, vice president in Chega’s national leadership, to act as the sole deputy for the far-right parliamentary party while he runs the January election campaign.
