Santos Silva defends parliament’s role in bringing Portugal and UK closer together in post-Brexit era
The President, who visited the British Parliament, spoke to the press.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, this Wednesday supported the role of Parliament in strengthening bilateral relations between Portugal and the United Kingdom in the post-Brexit period.
Speaking to journalists after a visit to the British Parliament, at the invitation of Lindsey Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons Santos e Silva highlighted the “contribution at the parliamentary level to strengthening bilateral relations between Portugal”. and the United Kingdom” following Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.
“Parliament adds other projects – the relationship between heads of state, the relationship between governments – to the pluralist representation project of Portuguese society and, therefore, our interlocutors today. [esta quarta-feira] “It can be seen that the progress and increase of bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Portugal is the unanimous position of the Portuguese Parliament,” he said.
The President traveled with representatives of the Assembly Sergio Souza Pinto (PS and President of the Portugal-United Kingdom Parliamentary Friendship Group), Joaquim Miranda Sarmento (PSD Parliamentary President), João Diaz (PCP) and Isabel Pires (BE). .
During the day, the delegation met with the European Affairs Committee, House of Lords Speaker John McFaul and members of the UK-Portugal Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In these contacts, they took the opportunity to raise some questions about the Portuguese community, such as visas and residence permits, and the United Kingdom’s connection with the Horizonte project, which is of interest to Portuguese scientific researchers working in British institutions.
Santos Silva and the Portuguese delegation also attended a plenary session, which was attended by British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden on behalf of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was absent for a NATO summit in Lithuania.
“Talking to the parliamentarians, our interlocutors spoke to the majority [parlamentar portuguesa] With today’s and tomorrow’s majority, with today’s minority, with tomorrow’s minority. Given the bilateral relationship between the two countries, it is very important that they realize that this is a priority that crosses the entire Portuguese Parliament,” Santos Silva stressed.
During the visit, he returned an invitation to Lindsay Hoyle to visit the Republican Assembly in Lisbon, which the Englishman accepted, with a date still to be determined.
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