“It’s not possible like that…” – everyone against Chega in the police debate
Tperhaps the best portrait of this Thursday’s debate in Parliament on security forces – marked by Chega, but with proposals from various parties for increasing the salary of police forces, but also to guarantee psychological support – be it the number of times you heard that it should be done “without shouting†– which is a sign that the shouting, interruptions and escalations tone of the deputies were permanent. Whoever presided over the Assembly table, from president Aguiar-Branco to vice Marcos Perestrello, who replaced him at the time, interrupted to ask the deputies, especially those from Chega, to silence. “We have a lot of people watching and in the upstairs galleries the acoustics aren’t the best,†warned Perestrello. “That’s not possible…†Aguiar-Branco had said.