Portugal available to share the experience of semi-presidentialism with Brazil
“Since the Chamber of Deputies follows the ongoing debates in society and in the Brazilian political elite on the possible evolution of the Brazilian political regime in a more semi-presidential sense (…) obviously Portugal has no opinion on this matter, but Portugal can give its own testimony” said in Brasilia, Augusto Santos Silva.
The Portuguese official met with the president of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Arthur Lira, and the working group of this body to study the possibility of adopting the president of the semi-presidential system was one of the topics he planned.
“We will be happy to share our experience with Brazil“, stressed Augusto Santos Silva, on the sidelines of the celebrations of the World Day of the Portuguese Language, Portuguese embassy in Brasília.
“We started after the 25th of April with a regime with a strong semi-presidential tendency – the Government depended at the same time on the parliament and on the President of the Republic.“, explanation.
Collaboration between parliaments
Another of the themes during the Santos meeting was the need to formalize the “cooperation between the two parliaments“.
Brazil is”only Portuguese-speaking country that the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic did not now have a collaboration protocol‘ and for that reason the two would decide that they would ‘supply this flaw’, he said.
After the meeting with Arthur Lira Santos Silva attended the opening of the exhibition “The traveller’s luggage, followed, in the afternoon, by a meeting with the president of the Federal Senate of Brazil, Rodrigocheco.
The Portuguese official attended the concert by the group “Reco do Bandolim e Choro Livre” and ended the day with a conversation with Pilar Del Río and Carlos Reis, regarding the celebration of the centenary of the writer and Nobel Prize in Literature José Saramago.
Santos Silva visits the Museum in the south of the country in Curitiba, during the Holocaust, and attends the inauguration of the José Saramago Chair at the Federal University of Paraná.
For Saturday, the last day of this official visit, the President of the Assembly of the Republic will participate in an event commemorating the World Day of the Portuguese Language at the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo, where he will attend a theatrical performance by the Pia Fraus company.