PSD, Chega, IL and BE criticize Brilante Diaz for suspicions raised by the TAP commission of inquiry

The SDP, Chega, IL and BE accused the PS parliamentary leader on Tuesday of arousing suspicion among deputies of the TAR investigation commission in connection with the leak of information from secret documents.

On Friday, PS parliamentary leader Eurico Brillante Diaz demanded reprisals for the selective leak of classified documents, stressing that it constituted a crime against the public interest and the state “probably” committed by members of a sovereign body. .

On Tuesday, the PSD, in the voice of coordinator Paulo Moniz, brought the issue up for discussion and demanded that the chairman of the commission of inquiry for the TAP, socialist Jorge Seguro Sánchez, apologize for having “hurriedly aroused suspicions against the commission without the due care, consideration and reflection that such a question requires.” seriousness.”

Paulo Moniz also asked that Seguro Sanchez, as president, formally reject Eurico Brillante Diaz’s statements.

In the first reply, the chairman of the commission repeated the request made on Friday to the chairman of the Assembly of the Republic for a “short investigation” given that the deputies of the commission should be “immune to external pressure”, and asked to focus on the work of the committee because the results are expected to come from this parliamentary instrument.

According to Chega, Filipe Melo criticized Brillante Dias for creating “an atmosphere of suspicion and dishonesty” that his party rejects, calling on everyone to sign a joint communiqué “to reject these words” and to ask the PS parliamentary leader “to be publicly portrayed”.

IL also intervened to separate the request for a summary inquiry made to the Speaker of Parliament from “putting the blame on this commission”.

“What we already know is that a lot more information has come out than the commission even has,” he said, pointing out to the PS parliament leader a “clear attempt to discredit” the work of the parliamentary inquiry.

Deputy MP Pedro Filipe Soares, on behalf of the BE, began by noting that as leader of the parliament he refused to comment on the case on Friday, but as a deputy of the commission he finds it unacceptable that Brillante Diaz made a set of “common guilt attributions that serve to throw mud at everyone.”

Denouncing suspicions even about the institution of parliament, Pedro Filipe Soares questioned whether, given everything that had happened since Friday, “an act to divert attention from what was to come next”, refusing, however, to appoint the chairman of the commission “by check”, whom he recognized as independent and whom he did not ask for the position.

Socialist MP Bruno Aragao stressed that the commission of inquiry is independent and that “everything that goes beyond it is the responsibility of the parliamentary groups”, and that “everything that does not have a place in the commission” should be excluded.

Earlier, Deputy Secretary General of the Union of Metals and Allied Industries (SIMA) Joao Moreira was heard, who lamented the lack of communication between the former management of the airline and workers’ representatives.

The leader of the trade union expressed concern about the privatization process that had begun, given that the past experience had failed.

“Any process can only be successful if trade unions are not excluded from these negotiations,” he stressed.