Deputies or children?

At a time when it comes to constitutional revisions and reducing the number of deputies, the first session of this legislature was not a good business card. It is common to say that the institution of each new Assembly of the Republic resembles the first day of classes in schools through this country. But the similarities should not be exaggerated and, lately this is what it seems.

With three elections in four years and the national political framework turned inside out, there are elected deputies who think they can play with the power conferred upon them by the people. It is the only conclusion that can be drawn from the result of the election of the vice-presidents to the Assembly table. Even admitting that some arrival deputies may have voted against their own candidates, it is mathematically impossible that several deputies of the PSD bench, the Government Party, have not, hidden in the secret vote, determined to preach a parties to André Ventura and the leader of the bench itself, contrary to what had been negotiated by the party directions.

I don’t know if these deputies, the PSD, went home on Tuesday night satisfied with their own installment and the awareness of being conditionedly representing the confidence that the voters deposited in them. If they are, in fact, they are not in Parliament doing anything and our money is very badly used in their salaries.

One thing is certain, the cowardly joke, hidden in the secret vote, may have compromised the difficult stability that this government needs to hold on. In addition to having given the unexpected asset that Ventura thanks. It is reserved for the capital of complaint when it works.

Another sad spectacle, which repeats election after election, is the deputies who after walking weeks asking for the voters’ vote, using their prestige and their professional career, despise the votes conquered and announce that they will not even take office. This time the most media case was Fernando Araújo, the former SNS executive director, who walked alongside Pedro Nuno Santos the whole campaign as the socialist trophy to try to win elections. As it has not been to be a health minister, the Portuguese who dawn because he has more than doing than going to Parliament wasting time.

I know the often hidden parliament and work that the deputies do. I don’t easily align with demagogy that deputies earn a lot and do little. But I recognize that the human quality of the occupants of the House of Democracy has been degrading with every passing legislature. The problem is incomparably more serious in the benches of the biggest parties: PSD, PS and arrives. In fact, if it is to do a present body and have irresponsible attitudes like the one we saw on this first day, many of these deputies are not missing and can be dispensable. Perhaps they helped dictate their grave in the next constitutional revision.

2 – The presidential elections are around the corner. Gouveia and Melo, Marques Mendes and António José Seguro, are the three names that have so far positioned themselves for the succession of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. There are three good candidates. Each with its own characteristics, the three have a curriculum and a past capable of making us quiet about the presidency. Let’s wait to see what new candidacies add.