Marcelo asks the new PGR for pedagogy, pacification, leadership and openness to “indispensable changes”
The President of the Republic today asked the new Attorney General of the Republic, Amadeu Guerra, to “lead what needs to be led, pacify what needs to be pacified”, practice pedagogy and show “openness to the challenges of indispensable changes”.
At the swearing-in ceremony of the new Attorney General of the Republic, Amadeu Guerra, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa thanked him for accepting “a mission that is not impossible, but that calls for such demanding predicates of training, citizenship and human, which in themselves justify more than a special expectation, a particular recognition”.
“May your work be crowned with success, leading what needs to be led, pacifying what needs to be pacified, acting with particular attention to corruption and other economic and financial criminality, practicing pedagogy – without ever giving in to constitutional values and principles and legal -, but open to reflection and reconsideration of what could be, and above all should be, reformulated”, he declared.
“In a word: unity, pacification, clear direction, openness to the challenges of indispensable changes”, added the head of state, who urged Amadeu Guerra to take this stance “not to satisfy any or some of the various visions of the collective whole”, but “ just thinking about this whole thing, just thinking about Portugal”.
In his brief speech, Marcelo highlighted the “very difficult context” in which Amadeu Guerra takes office.
The President of the Republic highlighted that the new attorney general has a “very experienced, solid curriculum vitae, with institutional and personal ascendancy, inevitably linked to a time and a strong and internally unifying leadership”.
“It is very much in line with the openness of the Constitution regarding who can be proposed by the PM and appointed by the PR”, he said, in front of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco.
The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic establishes that “the mandate of the Attorney General of the Republic lasts six years” and that it is the President of the Republic’s responsibility to “appoint and dismiss, upon proposal from the Government”, the holder of this position.
In a democracy, the previous holders of this position were Lucília Gago (2018-2024), Joana Marques Vidal (2012-2018), Pinto Monteiro (2006-2012), Souto de Moura (2000-2006), Cunha Rodrigues (1984-2000 ), Arala Chaves (1977-1984) and Pinheiro Farinha (1974-1977).
