Former SDP parliament leader Paulo Mota Pinto disagrees with the creation of a commission of inquiry into the Security Information Service System (SIS) and opposes a model of direct parliamentary oversight, which he considers “disproportionate”.
“I don’t see it with a kind eye. The work of this commission of inquiry can have very negative consequences for the fundamental structure of the state. For the same reason that I am against the model of direct parliamentary oversight, I think it would be disproportionate. The facts do not justify this,” says Paulo Mota Pinto in an interview with the newspaper Público and Rádio Renascença.
The question of establishing a commission of inquiry into the activities of the SIS arises after controversy over the resignation of Frederico Pinheiro, a former assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure, Joao Galamba. We are talking about using SIS to retrieve a computer seized by a former adviser to the ministry, allegedly with classified information.
The statements by the former SDP parliamentary leader came a day after the SDP said it would vote for Chega and IL’s proposals to set up a commission of inquiry into the actions of the “secretaries” in the Galamba case, but announced that it “will not and will not take any initiative of its own in this regard.” .
In an interview, Paulo Mota Pinto, who was the leader of the SDP parliamentary group along with Rui Rio and chairman of the commission for the oversight of the intelligence services, also stated that he did not understand the “revocation of confidence” from the secretary general of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP), Maria da Graça Mira Gomes.
“I did not quite understand what it means: deprivation of political trust. There should be no relationship of political trust between each of the party leaders and the general secretary of the SIRP. The facts are unclear to me. in the sense of substantiating this withdrawal of political trust. I have my doubts about the basis for this review. I don’t even understand its scale,” he stressed.
When asked if SIRP was doing well, Paulo Mota Pinto replied that “the facts are not very clear.”
“I still do not quite understand who took the initiative. But the SIRP review board issued a statement. I have no reason to understand that she did not faithfully perform her functions and did not investigate this. from classified information, then attempts by information services to prevent this are normal. It seems that the police functions were not carried out,” he says.
The ex-leader of the parliament adds that he has no reason not to trust the opinion of the audit commission that the process went quite well.
Regarding the current position of the PSD in the polls, Paulo Mota Pinto emphasizes that the party has maintained or slightly increased its voting intentions.
“I agree with what Prof. Cavaco Silva said that PSD has the conditions for a 7.8 point upgrade,” he pointed out.
Paulo Mota Pinto asked the party to join, suggesting that it expand beyond its apparatus to bring in people from civil society.
Regarding euthanasia, and when asked if he would help PSD prepare a request for a post-graduation test, Paulo Mota Pinto recalls voting against it.
“I voted against the diploma of euthanasia, but not for reasons of constitutionality. I voted against because I understood that it should have been put forward first, in the first stage, only for cases in which the prognosis was fatal and the suffering was unbearable. he said.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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