Africa-Press – Cape verde. The president of the National Assembly said today that the retreat in the election of bodies outside Parliament, in the last session of April, “does not jeopardize the image and credibility” of the institution. Austelino Correia assured that the plenary fulfilled all the procedures.
Austelino Correia made this statement when asked to react on the election of external bodies to the National Assembly, which was postponed to an “opportune time”, after the parliamentary benches of the MpD and the PAICV arrived, on the 28th of April, at a consensus on the names of the nominated personalities.
At the time, he had said that he announced the vote by the bodies external to parliament, according to the process he received, “which appeared to be in compliance”, and that all the opinions were in the sense that the candidates met the requirements to fill the positions. what they were going to be elected for.
All procedures completed
Today, he stressed that the plenary of the National Assembly “complied with all the procedures” from the entry, verification of processes, notification of the parties and the call of candidates for the election of external bodies, and that, however, on the day that the matter was scheduled for the election it was suspended for the next plenary session.
“In democracy, especially in a plural body such as the National Assembly and a democratic state governed by Cape Verde, consensus and understanding are built, it is never finished until the moment we finish the process. When we complete the process, the consensus is finished, but until then, you can go back and you can go forward. There are always setbacks and advances and so is democracy, we have to understand this as something natural,” he declared.
Austelino Correia reinforced that the retreat does not jeopardize the credibility of the parliament, and stressed that in a democracy the majority and minorities are important for the construction of understandings.
“This retreat does not harm the image of the parliament, on the contrary, that is, it proves that we are a mature parliament, which knows how to respect differences and which puts Cape Verde’s interest above all else”, he concluded.
According to the document, cited by Inforpress, the judges Dulcelina Sanches Rocha and Evandro João Tancredo Rocha had been appointed as alternate judges of the Constitutional Court, while the citizens Artur Jorge Correia and Elias Mendes Monteiro.
Citizens António Pedro Tavares Silva, Silvino Pires Amador, Maimuna Tavares Mendes Baldé and Ana Isabel Moreno Semedo were appointed to the Superior Council for the Judiciary.
In turn, Leão Domingos Jesus Lopes de Pina, Raquel Odete Fortes, Arlindo Mendes and Carlos Jorge Fernandes Moura were to be elected to integrate the Superior Council of the Public Ministry.
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