Chega submitted this Thursday in Parliament a new request for the establishment of an inquiry committee into Luís Neves's management at the Judicial Police, after the motion of censure it presented against the Government was rejected in plenary. The party intends for the constitution of the inquiry committee to take place on Tuesday, September 15, the date when the Assembly of the Republic resumes its normal period of operation.
The new mandatory request by Chega was submitted after the president of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, admitted he could reject the proposal if the party did not amend the grounds and intended subject matter. Aguiar-Branco claimed to have found "insufficiencies in the delimitation of the subject matter and grounds" that did not allow, in its current formulation, for the mandatory constitution of the committee, demanding that the party change the subject matter from "evaluate" to "identify the specific acts, decisions, procedures or matters to be investigated".
The new request aims to respond to this ruling, with Chega maintaining the original subject matter without any alteration, considering that the doubts raised by Aguiar-Branco are "devoid of any legal and constitutional basis". Nevertheless, the party introduced some changes, proposing the analysis of contracts awarded by the PJ to Construbarcelos and the verification of the existence or otherwise of conflicts of interest in the contracting of the same company for the carrying out of private works.
