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Pedro Delgado Alves accuses Aguiar-Branco of “double standards”

During the state of the nation debate, tensions flared during an exchange of arguments between the Socialist Party (PS) bench and the President of the Assembly of the Republic after PS Secretary-General José Luís Carneiro was reprimanded by Aguiar-Branco. Carneiro had stated he had never encountered a “deputy as boastful” as the leader of Chega, André Ventura.

Aguiar-Branco deemed the reference to another deputy as “boastful” not to be a “courteous treatment.”

In a point of order, Deputy Pedro Delgado Alves criticized the President of the Assembly for not addressing André Ventura when he said that the opposition of “José Luís Carneiro is even weaker” than that of Pedro Nuno Santos. According to the PS deputy, Ventura made “much worse invectives.”

“I have been a deputy in this chamber for many years, what I am saying binds only me: I am ashamed of the intervention that the president has just delivered because it shows a double standard (…) and he lacks the courage, in front of the far-right that disrupts the parliamentary debate daily, to defend the chamber,” he accused.

The parliament president said he did not recall the reference Pedro Delgado Alves was referring to and assured that he makes no distinction between deputies.

The PS Secretary-General had stated that Ventura’s words could only come from “someone who has a boastful style.”

Aguiar-Branco took the opportunity of Carneiro’s intervention to explain the difference “between referring to a certain leadership, a certain idea as weak” or to a person who “is weak, abject, or boastful.”

PS Parliamentary Leader Eurico Brilhante Dias also joined the discussion at this moment, criticizing that “once again” the far-right used “an offensive term for the PS leader” and the president of the parliament did not show “the necessary consideration,” pointing out a “much greater leniency” of Aguiar-Branco with Chega.

Avoiding further debate, the parliament president noted that these words from Ventura did not prompt any request from the PS bench for a right of reply or defense of honor.

From the PS bench, a bit later and following an intervention from the Chega bench, came a question from Edite Estrela wanting to know “where and since when is the adjective boastful an insult,” a question that went unanswered by Aguiar-Branco.

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