PSD deputy José Pedro Aguiar-Branco failed to be elected president of the Assembly of the Republic with 89 votes in favor, 134 blanks and seven null votes, in the first plenary session of the XVI legislature.
The rules of the Assembly of the Republic determine that the president of parliament is elected at the first plenary meeting of the legislature by an absolute majority of the votes of the deputies in office (116).
«If none of the candidates obtains this number of votes, a second vote will immediately take place, in which only the two candidates with the most votes who have not withdrawn their candidacy will compete. If no candidate is elected, the process is reopened», states the Rules.
António Filipe, who presides over the first plenary session, declared the candidate “not elected”.
The PSD parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, immediately asked for work to be interrupted for 30 minutes, which was granted, resuming at 17:30 pm.
It is necessary to go back to 2011, in the XII legislature, when PSD and CDS-PP had an absolute majority, for a single candidate for president of the Assembly of the Republic to fail in the election: Fernando Nobre failed to obtain the necessary absolute majority in two consecutive elections for president of the parliament and did not apply for a third.
Only former Defense Minister José Pedro Aguiar-Branco competed in today's election, which Chega publicly stated that it would support, saying that the Social Democrats would also indicate that their candidates for 'vice' and secretaries of the Board would be approved. .
In the 78th legislature, PSD and PS each have 50 deputies, Chega XNUMX parliamentarians, IL eight, BE five and PCP and Livre four each. The PAN maintains a single deputy and the CDS-PP returned to parliament with two deputies.
In other words, PSD, CDS-PP and Chega have a total of 130 parliamentarians, which should be more than enough for the election, which is carried out by secret vote.
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