The leader of the IL said this Wednesday that his party will not make proposals to change the preliminary report of the commission of inquiry in the TAR for unwillingness to “participate in a farce”, qualifying the document as a “work of art.”
Speaking to reporters in parliament, Rui Rocha said the report was made “against reality, against the Assembly of the Republic itself” and “against the Portuguese themselves”.
“There is a huge difference between what the report says and what the Portuguese were able to follow in days, weeks, and therefore there is a complete hoax. I know Portuguese,” he criticized.
Rui Rocha stated that the IL gives a “clearly negative assessment of the conclusion and recommendation” of the report and will not “engage in farce” or “attempts to present a truth that is contrary to what the Portuguese saw and followed.”
“In view of this, we will not even make any proposals to change the report, because we do not participate in farces,” he stressed.
The IL leader recalled that at the beginning of the commission of inquiry into the TAR, the prime minister said that he “would like the truth to be established, whoever it was sick”, but believed that these truths were “put under account.”
“What we see here in this report is painstaking work in the sense that, given these findings and recommendations, the prime minister himself cannot make any political consequences,” he said.
Rui Rocha questioned “whether preparatory meetings preceded the preparation of the report”, given that “it would be difficult to provide a service more in line with António Costa’s wishes than what was done”.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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