“The prime minister should say how the SIS was activated,” Katarina Martins adds.

Left Bloc (BE) coordinator Katharina Martins said this Saturday that it is up to the prime minister to say how the SIS was activated in the event of the alleged theft of the state computer.

“Once the service was activated, which could only be activated by the Prime Minister, SIS [Serviço de Informações de Segurança]it should be the prime minister who should tell the parliament how it happened because we need to know if he was provoked incorrectly or if he acted without anyone’s request, which is also unacceptable,” the BE leader told reporters in Amarante in area of ​​Porto.

According to Katarina Martins, “the version presented to the country by the prime minister has many contradictions.”

“Now I don’t know if the prime minister had access to all the facts or not,” he added, meaning that António Costa’s written response to the TAP Commission of Inquiry could dispel doubts.

The leader believed that there were two hypotheses: “Either the CCC had instructions to act and the only instructions could come from the prime minister, who should not have done this, or she acted without these instructions, and it is extremely serious that she did it.” because it couldn’t be done.”

In any case, in his opinion, there is an “insulting intervention of the CCC, which cannot go unpunished and inexplicable.”

Katharina Martins, who attended the weekly fair in Amaranta accompanied by local leaders, said that in contacts with the population, people “talk with great anxiety about what they see from the government and about this mistrust.”

“I don’t think there was anyone I didn’t talk to who didn’t say, ‘Do you think this is right? It looks like they are laughing at us,” he told reporters who accompanied the visit to the market.

For Katarina Martins, the way the socialist government has handled its responsibilities in managing various dossiers, including running the TAP airline, discredits democracy and paralyzes the executive branch.

“People see that the government is entangled in lies, in situations that humiliate the image of institutions, and this is very serious,” he stressed, confirming the position of BE, according to which the Minister of Infrastructure, Joao Galamba, has no conditions. continue in office.

“Now the Minister of Infrastructure is António Costa. No one believes that a minister as fragile as Joao Galamba is dealing with complex cases like the privatization of TAP. Of course, the prime minister is doing this,” he said. allocated. .

According to the BE coordinator, what is found in the TAP Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry is “the misuse of public institutions and, by all indications, also of information and security services, and this is extremely serious.”

The SIS activation is linked to the alleged theft of the state computer by Frederico Pinheiro, a former assistant to João Galamba, after he was exonerated in April.

The case involved allegations against Federico Pinheiro of physical abuse at the Ministry of Infrastructure, in addition to the theft of a laptop, and the controversy intensified when SIS’s intervention in the recovery of that computer became known.

In recent days, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has declined to comment on reports of violence in the ministry, the use of SIS and the controversial accounts of Joao Galamba and his former deputy represented in Parliament.