Outgoing Prime Minister António Costa ridiculed the statement of the Attorney General’s Office this Friday in the National Council of the PS.
“We learned from Expresso that the paragraph that fired me was written by the prosecutor general of the republic, and this is interesting news because no one can assume that the statement of the prosecutor’s office was not written by the prosecutor,” Costa said.
The socialist emphasized that “what belongs to justice depends on justice, and what belongs to politics depends on politics,” and therefore he will not interfere in this process.
“I believe that there is no point in holding an election campaign or political debate about what is happening in the justice sector,” he emphasized.
António Costa denied this statement by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, saying that it did not occur to him to talk about PGR in a conversation with the head of state.
“You’ll have to ask the President of the Republic what public comment I made, I can’t remember one,” he explained.
On Friday To express reported that the Attorney General of the Republic, Lucília Gago, wrote a paragraph accusing António Costa of “Operation Man of Influence.”
Lucília Gago feared that the prosecutor’s office would be accused of protecting the prime minister. The President of the Republic received this information, but did not interfere with the content of the statement.
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