The government has not yet officially received the questions that PSD addressed to the prime minister about SIS’s actions to recover a computer seized from the Ministry of Infrastructure, a source in the socialist executive told Lusa this Thursday.
According to the same source, António Costa’s office learned “through the press” about the questions asked by the PSD in this case involving the Security Information Service (SIS).
“But that’s not all: the SDP made public its questions long before it formally submitted them to the Assembly of the Republic,” he refers.
A few hours earlier, the leader of the PSD parliament had declared that the prime minister’s responses about SIS had not yet been received by the Assembly of the Republic, accusing António Costa of “disrespecting parliament” and “trampling on institutions”.
“It is disrespectful to the Assembly of the Republic that the Prime Minister’s possible answers to the questions asked by the PSD yesterday [quarta-feira] about the work of the SIS in the case of a laptop belonging to the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, which has not yet been sent to Parliament, but has already been in the media since 6:30 in the morning,” Joaquim Miranda Sarmento criticized in statements to journalists after the meeting of the parliamentary group.
The leader of the Social Democratic Parliament declined to comment on the content of the answers released this Thursday by Lusa “until they are official.”
The prime minister’s responses, released by Lusa, have already been posted on the government’s Internet portal, but on the parliament’s website – in the tab dedicated to “questions and requests” – there is neither the question of the PSD announced on Wednesday, nor the corresponding answer.