Marcelo Rebelo de Souza says there are no “facts” that would force him to add anything in the case of the twins.

This Sunday, the President of the Republic considered that there were “no facts” in the case of the twins that would prompt him to add any comments to those already made, saying that he had not heard the parliamentary hearings in the case of the mother of the children.

On the sidelines of the opening of an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of cartoonist António Antunes’s career in Vila Franca de Xira, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza was asked about Friday’s hearing of the twins’ mother before a parliamentary commission of inquiry, during which he said he had never met and did not address the President of the Republic or his son Nuno Rebel de Souza.

“I haven’t heard, no [a audição]. “I have nothing to say because with regard to what I said on this matter there were no facts that would lead me to say anything more,” he replied.

Regarding the fact that the twins’ mother somehow cleared him, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza stuck to the line that he had no intention of commenting and that he had “nothing more to say on the matter.”

“I do not comment on the activities of parliament, nor the plenary session, nor the commission, nor the commission of inquiry. Parliament is free. “I said only one thing that seemed important to me: all citizens are equal before sovereign bodies, before the law and before the Constitution,” he simply answered, faced with the insistence of journalists that his son refused to give an explanation to the investigative commission.

The mother of the twins told the commission of inquiry on Friday that she had never met or spoken personally with the President of the Republic or her son, and indicated that she was lying when she spoke of a network of influence that favored children.

“I have never personally met or approached the President of the Republic or his son Dr. Nuno Rebel de Souza,” said Daniela Martins.

“In a supposedly informal conversation, I boasted and stated that there was a network of influences in which doctors began to receive orders from above. On this occasion, I can only deeply apologize to everyone in Portugal. I was stupid, I made a mistake, and I made a mistake because out of vanity at that moment I said something that was not true,” he said.

Before this hearing, the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of the twins treated at the Santa Maria Hospital once again demanded the presence of the son of the President of the Republic, declaring that his refusal to appear “constitutes a crime of insubordination.”

We are talking about the treatment in the hospital of two Portuguese-Brazilian children who received the drug Zolgensma. Costing two million euros per person, the drug aims to control the spread of spinal muscular atrophy, a neurodegenerative disease.

The case is still being investigated by the General Prosecutor’s Office, but the General Inspectorate of Health has already concluded that these children’s access to neuropediatric consultation was illegal.

Santa Maria Hospital’s internal audit also concluded that the state Department of Health’s first appointment at the hospital was the only exception to compliance in this case.