The PSD will have six chairmanships of parliamentary committees, including Constitutional Affairs, the PS will have five, including Budget and Finance, and Chega will chair Defense, Education and Local Power.
This distribution between PSD, PS and Chega of the 14 chairmanships of standing parliamentary committees was told to Lusa today by Social Democrat MP Hugo Carneiro, who coordinated a working group appointed for this purpose by the parliamentary leaders’ conference.
At the beginning of each parliamentary term, the chairmanships of parliamentary committees are always distributed proportionally according to the weight of each caucus in the 230 MPs, also taking into account the organization of the government in office.
In this legislature, the PSD Parliamentary Group will appoint the chairmen of the Constitutional Affairs, European Affairs, Agriculture, Environment and Energy, Economy and Transparency committees.
The PS will have one less than the PSD, with the chairmanships of the Foreign Affairs, Budget and Finance, Health, Labor and Culture parliamentary committees.
For the first time, Chega, now the third largest caucus in the Assembly of the Republic, will chair three committees, including National Defense, Education and Local Power.
On Wednesday, the spokesman for the leaders’ conference, Social Democrat MP Jorge Paulo Oliveira, said that the 14 permanent parliamentary committees for the current parliamentary term had already been set, and could be formally approved this Friday.
“This work is practically complete and the 14 parliamentary committees that already existed in the previous legislature will be maintained, which means that the new organic law of the government is very close to that of the previous one,” noted the spokesman at the leaders’ conference.
There are only two significant changes to the organization of the 14 permanent parliamentary committees compared to the previous legislature. Public administration now returns to the Budget and Finance Committee; and the 13th committee, which had an extensive name, covering areas such as administrative modernization, is now called the Territorial Cohesion and Local Power Committee.
This Committee on Territorial Cohesion and Local Government will also include the area of community funds, which was previously in the Parliamentary Committee on the Economy.
