Chega will ask the prime minister to provide written explanations to the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the TAP on the presence or absence of an opinion justifying the dismissal of the former executive director of the company.
At a press conference at Chega headquarters, Andre Ventura indicated that the party “will support in the parliamentary commission of inquiry the demand for the delivery of all documents, namely a legal opinion or legal documentation” that justified the resignation of the president. – executive and “chairman” of the TAR.
“We are going to ask that António Costa be heard in writing, as required by the rules, on this matter, and we again call on the Prime Minister to confirm whether or not TAP has legal documentation regarding the dismissal of several of its governors and managers, and the trust is maintained to their ministers who seem to contradict each other every day,” said President Chegi.
Andre Ventura believes that in an interview he gave to RTP on Sunday evening, the prime minister had “an opportunity once and for all to explain the mess that has been consistently seen in TAP, but he chose not to.”
“Yesterday, the prime minister had the opportunity to explain the reasons why the ministers lied, why contradictions within the government have escalated, and why the government continues to hide documents from the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the TAR,” he defended.
Ventura pointed out that António Costa “rejected to talk about all this with general patterns and without a single explanation of the cases that follow each other in the government”, nor about “issues that really interest the Portuguese and about juggling.” the PS government and the PS parliamentary group in the TAP Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry”.
Leader Chegi also called for the intervention of the president of the republic, “so that the government does not feel free to do whatever it wants in this matter.”
On Wednesday, the government justified its refusal to send legal opinions in support of the removal of the former executive president of the company to the TAP commission of inquiry on the basis of the need to “protect the public interest.”
In a note sent to Lusa, the office of the Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Ana Catarina Mendez, argues that “the opinion in question is not within the competence of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI)” and “disclosing it entails risks in the defense legal position of the state.”
At a parliamentary hearing Thursday, Finance Minister Fernando Medina said there was no “additional opinion” to justify the resignation of the “chairman” and president of the executive committee (CEO) of TAP, beyond what is the result of a General Inspectorate for Finance (IGF) report.
“There is no opinion, the idea that there will be an opinion … there is no opinion additional to what is the basis for the justification for the dismissal, which is more than enough for those who read it, regarding the conclusion of the Inspectorate of the City of Finance,” said Fernando Medina.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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