This Friday, the IL President defended that a thorough examination of secrets should be held in Parliament, criticizing the “bad principle” of discussing these sensitive issues through “an exchange of letters between the two parties of the central bloc.”
“This exchange of letters actually reflects an issue that we have been criticizing for a long time, which is the management of the central unit. We are obviously talking about very sensitive issues, especially sensitive ones, but then the SDP and the PS discuss this in a letter. “It seems like a bad principle to us,” Liberal leader Rui Rocha told Lusa in a statement.
This is a letter from SDP President Luis Montenegro to the Prime Minister, in which he insists on the resignation of the General Secretary of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic and warns that if this does not happen, the “secret” direction will lose the confidence of the Social Democrats.
“It also seems to us that just as there are no passwords to run a country, maps in this matter are not really the right way to govern things, because it seems that the country belongs to the PS and the SDP and this does not make sense these days,” he criticized .
According to Rui Rocha, IL referred the discussion of this topic to the Assembly of the Republic.
“It seems to us that this is the right place and not exactly an exchange of letters between the two parties of the central bloc,” he stressed.
The leader of the IL recalled that the party had submitted “a request to establish a parliamentary commission to investigate the activities of information services, in this particular case, the events in the Ministry of Infrastructure.”
“It seems to us that this is the right way. The parliamentary commission of inquiry will provide an opportunity to check all the facts that have happened,” he stressed.
Based on the implications and conclusions of this parliamentary committee of inquiry, according to Rui Rocha, “all relevant policy decisions need to be taken, especially with regard to the issue of the Secretary General of Information Services of the Republic.”
“And therefore, it seems to us that this is the right way, the parliamentary way. Just like we submitted the request, in the sense of hearing the Supervisory Board, because we also feel that there are many doubts or even certainty that participation the supervisory board was not completely ruled out,” he defended.
In a letter dated Thursday, the content of which was brought to the attention of the President of the Republic, Montenegro expects the Social Democrats to “propose over time to change the system of parliamentary oversight” of news services “to make it more transparent and efficient.”
The social democratic leader insists on the “need to replace the Secretary General of the SIRP”, Graça Ambassador Mira Gomes, arguing that “despite the abuses by the government demanding in practice the intervention of the SIRP” in the restoration of the computer seized from the Ministry of Infrastructures on the night of April 26 , “under no circumstances should this service have honored such a request.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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