The President of the PSD said this Monday that the party will not interfere with the possible proposal of the Liberal Initiative (IL) for parliamentary hearings of the son of the President of the Republic in the case of the twins, which needs to be clarified.
“If the offer [de audição parlamentar de Nuno Rebelo de Sousa] presented, we will not interfere with this,” said PSD leader Luis Montenegro.
Speaking to reporters at Beja airport at the start of his tour of the Alentejo region until Wednesday as part of the Sentir Portugal programme, Montenegro said that “the most important thing” in the case of the twins “is that in the country there is no doubt that everything the rules were followed.”
“And the rules here are on several levels. It is the rules of intervention of people with political responsibility that may have determined the course and analysis of the situation, and we can also conclude that there was no benefit to the people who had access to the treatment to the detriment of other people who could have received it.” , he explained.
Answering a question from journalists about the position of the President of the Republic (PR), Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on this case and whether the head of state has been weakened as a result, the leader of the Social Democrats insisted on the need to clarify the topic.
The country “deserves confidence that everything happened as usual and that no one was harmed due to the strange intervention,” he said.
“When we have completely complete elements to do this, the issue will be closed. Until that happens, it is natural that we are all interested in dispelling doubts,” he emphasized, emphasizing: “I think that the situation should be absolutely clarified.”
The President of the Republic “has already said what he understands” on this issue, “but it is natural that democratic instruments can deepen other areas of assessment,” he said.
“Namely, to fulfill the responsibility of everyone to contribute to finding out whether something anomalous has really happened or not,” added Luis Montenegro.
On Sunday, the President of the Liberal Initiative announced this Monday that he will demand a parliamentary hearing of the son of the President of the Republic, Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, on the case of the twins, and expressed the hope that the PS will not “block these clarifications”. ” again.
In a conversation with Lusa, Ruy Rocha recalled that this week the PS blocked requests for hearings from former governors Marta Temido and Lacerda Sales “in a case that lasted several weeks and in which there were conflicting versions.”
The case involves two twin children living in Brazil who have since acquired Portuguese citizenship and came to Portugal in 2019 to receive the drug Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy, worth a total of four million euros. In November, TVI announced that it condemned the alleged interference of the President of the Republic.
Last week, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa confirmed that his son contacted him regarding the situation of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins, who later received medication at the Santa Maria Hospital, and stated that the treatment he gave in this case was neutral and equal to many others.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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