This Saturday, Chega submitted a request for a hearing by the assistant secretary of state to the prime minister at the TAP parliamentary commission of inquiry into the involvement of information services in the recovery of the computer of former aide Joao Galamba.
The party, led by André Ventura, said in a statement that after Thursday’s hearing of Infrastructure Minister Joao Galamba in a parliamentary commission investigating political tutelage over TAP’s governance, “it became apparent that the offensive and abusive SIS came from a core close to the prime minister, if not from himself.”
“According to the Minister of Infrastructure, it was Secretary of State Mendonsa Mendez who considered the intervention of ‘secrets’ appropriate, contrary to current legal regulations,” the text reads.
For Chega, “at stake is the discovery of the material truth and the very suitability of the rulers in question”, and for these reasons the party submitted this Saturday a motion to hear Antonio Mendons Mendez.
On Saturday, the assistant secretary of state to the prime minister declined to elaborate on what role he played in calling in information services to recover the computer of the former assistant secretary of infrastructure.
On the sidelines of the PAN congress, which was held in Matosinhos, Porto district, António Mendonça Mendez did not respond to reporters about his alleged involvement in the case of the return of Frederico Pinheiro’s computer, after Joao Galamba told the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry addressed the leadership of the TAR that it was this the official told him to contact the information services.
“I would like to remind you that there is a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) regarding TAP, everything that the government had to say and have to do with this issue has already been said,” he answered a question from journalists.
According to Antonio Mendons Mendez, “it is important that everyone does what they have to do, the CPI for the management of TAP investigates the facts regarding the management of TAP.”
The infrastructure minister said at a hearing before a parliamentary commission of inquiry on Thursday that whoever told him to contact information services on April 26 was Prime Minister António Mendons Mendez’s deputy secretary of state.
Galamba also said that he informed Prime Minister António Costa as early as around 01:00 am on April 27 about the developments in the ministry and told him “that the SIS had been called”, a call that occurred several hours after the first contact attempt, to which the head The executive did not respond.
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”.
“My conversation with Antonio Mendonza Mendez ends after Eugenia Correia’s conversation with SIRP,” he said.
The case relates to the dismissal of Federico Pinheiro and includes complaints against a former assistant regarding physical abuse at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the alleged theft of a laptop computer, a case that is being investigated by the Ministry of State.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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