The president of the CDS-PP and MEP elected by the party, Nuno Melo, will leave the European Parliament at the “beginning of April” to take up his mandate as a member of the Portuguese Parliament, he told Lusa.
The CDS-PP, which ran in Sunday’s legislative elections in coalition with the PSD and PPM, the Democratic Alliance (AD), elected two deputies: Nuno Melo for Porto and Paulo Núncio for the Lisbon constituency.
The CDS-PP will once again be represented in parliament in the next legislature, after failing to elect any MPs in 2022, having been excluded from the Assembly of the Republic for the first time in democracy.
Nuno Melo has indicated that he will end his mandate as an MEP “early”, leaving “a little before the inauguration” of the members of Parliament.
“I leave at the beginning of April,” he said.
The CDS-PP leader also said that it is not yet clear who will replace him until the end of his mandate. Next on the list of CDS-PP candidates for the European Parliament is former minister Pedro Mota Soares.
According to the law, the exercise of the mandate of Member of the European Parliament is incompatible with the exercise of the mandate of Member of the Assembly of the Republic.
The 230 deputies elected in Sunday’s legislative elections will take office in the first plenary session of the 16th legislature, which, if the usual deadlines are repeated, should take place between the end of the month and the beginning of April.
The European elections will take place in June, but the terms of the current MEPs will only end when the new European Parliament takes office.
