Montenegro discounts documents sent by Costa and says they have ‘zero privacy’

This Thursday, the PSD president downplayed the documents sent to him last week by the prime minister, saying they were not confidential and wondering if the problem could be in António Costa’s office.

In the opening speech of the National Council, open to the media, Luis Montenegro mentioned for the first time the response of the Prime Minister to the letter he sent, insisting on the resignation of the Secretary General of SIRP, whom he threatened to withdraw political credibility after revealing the “secret” to restore the computer of the former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure.

“The Prime Minister answered me – among jokes, because he takes it as a joke when we talk about public affairs – and sent me two documents that are confidential, but which have no confidentiality,” he said.

The documents that Costa says he sent to Montenegro, classified as confidential, are a written response that Security Information Service (SIS) director Adelio Neiva da Cruz sent to the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Republic Information System on May 2 and a report from the Data Verification Commission for information system of the Portuguese Republic of 22 May.

According to Montenegro, there are “two reports” in which both Councils asked the services about what happened on the night of April 26 at the Ministry of Infrastructure, and to which the services responded “generally”.

“I am not violating the confidentiality of documents, but I want to say to the Prime Minister: if you think that you are conditioning the SDP’s political position by allegedly sending two documents to the SDP that most likely contain confidential information, make no mistake, we are not going to do such a maneuver,” he said.

The PSD President reaffirmed his position that Infrastructure Minister Joao Galamba contradicts what Deputy Secretary of State António Mendonça Mendez said, for whom he proposed the intervention of intelligence agencies on the night of April 26 and left suspicion.

“If the prime minister thinks it’s okay for a minister to say the opposite of his cabinet, then maybe the problem is in his cabinet, and it’s even worse than we thought,” he suggested.

In a long almost 40-minute speech, Montenegro emphasized that “the party is united and united”, “everything is contrary to what is happening on the side of the PS and the government.”

“There is cohesion here, there is a lack of coordination in the government and in the PS, increasingly evident in the internal division, in the delimitation of political and party territory for the coming years, and in the political contamination of the government by this delimitation.” he accused.

For Montenegro, the responsibility for this contagion lies with Prime Minister Antonio Coste, who brought these divisions into the government, given that the socialist rulers and former ministers who went through the commission of inquiry demonstrate that “they are concerned about many things, at least with country.”

The social democratic leader even thought that this commission of inquiry “was the manna of everything, which is a way for the PS to oppose the government in Portugal”, leaving a direct criticism of former minister Pedro Nuno Santos, which was heard in parliament this Thursday.

“For several years they had these enthusiastic tirades and said that “the PVR is ours, we must manage the PVP” (…) Now, with the same people, what they say to us with impudence, as if nothing was privatized by the company” , he criticized, extending this criticism to current ministers Fernando Medina and Joao Galamba.