PAN spokeswoman Inés de Souza Real said this Friday that Joao Galamba is not in a position to remain infrastructure minister and that SIS’s intervention to restore the computer “was an abuse.”
“According to PAN, the minister has no conditions to continue performing functions, at present he is damaging the entire government, the entire authority of the institutions and the government itself, and Joao Galamba should have already insisted on António Costa. accept his resignation,” he defended.
Speaking to reporters in the Assembly of the Republic, the sole deputy of People-Animals-Natureza referred to the latest hearings in the TAP parliamentary commission of inquiry and considered that “a zero degree of political responsibility and public decency” had been achieved and that “Prime Minister António Costa made a bad decision to keep and not accept the minister’s resignation.”
Inés de Souza Real wondered “how much legitimacy Joao Galamba would have to continue negotiations on behalf of the state” on the privatization of TAP.
“Despite the inconsistencies that have been made and the inconsistencies that exist in the various hearings, there is one thing that is crystal clear: there was a use of SIS that, in the opinion of PAN, was an abuse that is unacceptable in the State of Law,” he criticized , pointing out that the intervention should have been carried out by “the police authorities, and in no way by the information service, which even bears the historical stigma associated with PIDE and Estado Novo.”
Inés de Sousa Real considered it “very serious that the government resorted to this intervention, regardless of the member of the government who could call for its intervention.”
The PAN MP also stated that it was “extremely serious” that “a citizen was locked in a ministry building against his will” and defended that “everything is unfair in politics, people who run political offices or parties should take their own responsibility , instead of witnessing the public lynching of an ex-counselor who was acting in his capacity.”
The PAN leader hopes that “the Prosecutor General’s Office will bring the investigation to extreme consequences, since CCC interference in the rule of law is unacceptable.”
The MP also indicated that she would propose a legislative amendment to “clarify all the gray areas of the legislation regarding the implementation of GIS, because what happened is completely unacceptable.”
“This whole process that has taken place does not make sense for us, it discredits institutions, political power. It also makes no sense that this very important dossier is completely undermined by this episode that happened, ”he lamented.
At a parliamentary hearing that lasted more than seven hours at the TAP political management commission of inquiry that began on Thursday and ended this Friday at dawn, Infrastructure Minister Joao Galamba said that the one who told him on April 26 to contact information services was the Assistant Secretary of State to the Prime Minister. Minister António Mendonza Mendez.
The minister confirmed the version given the day before by his chief of staff, who could have been Eugenia Correia, who reported to SIRP (Information System of the Portuguese Republic) and later contacted SIS but guaranteed that he did not pass on any messages. instructions for calling “secret”.
The April 26 incidents are linked to Frederico Pinheiro, a former deputy minister, and include complaints against the former deputy for physical abuse at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the alleged theft of a laptop after being fired, if investigated by the State Department.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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