President Chegi said on Tuesday that he had questioned the infrastructure minister about the reason he “classified and declassified” more than a hundred documents and questioned the legality of the procedure, admitting to filing a complaint with the public ministry.
“We have sent a number of questions to the Minister of Infrastructure about the news that Joao Galamba will classify and declassify the documents at an interval of about two months,” he said, citing that it “was the deadline for the parliamentary commission of inquiry.”
André Ventura believed that “everything looks like this”, that the minister’s “only purpose” was to protect the documents of the parliamentary commission of inquiry and “public discussion”.
Pointing out that this situation raises “a number of questions about the legality of these procedures,” the Chegi president said that depending on the answers and “if there is a criminal case,” the party will file a complaint with the prosecutor’s office. report that “this mechanism appears to have been abused to restrict access to documents.”
“We can face serious violations in the form of abuse of power by the state,” he said.
According to the newspaper Público, in April the Minister of Infrastructure classified 105 documents from the Infraestruturas de Portugal as state secrets, and 101 of them were reclassified as “reserved” in June.
“The minister has a lot to explain and we hope he can do it quickly,” he said, pointing out that Chega asked Joao Galamba “why he classified and declassified documents” and “what are these documents, what is the time frame ? in which this classification process took place, whether the process was initiated on its own initiative, as it appears, or whether it was the initiative of another state body, and what was the involvement of the National Security Administration in this matter.
Speaking to reporters at the end of his visit to the World Youth Day headquarters in Lisbon, the Chega leader also criticized the attitude of the PS and SDP towards the report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to the TAR.
“Absolutely indecent, it is unfortunate how it turns out that the PS and SDP are so eager to discredit the CPI, some because it seems that their only concern is to say that the privatization process was not carried out as badly as it seems, and others because they don’t have the slightest bit of modesty in the face of a report that everyone on this committee is known to be false, that it’s not true, that doesn’t reflect what was done there, and they’re two pages long [de propostas de alteração] absolutely marginal topics,” he defended.
André Ventura criticized the Liberals and Social Democrats for not submitting proposals to change the PS MP’s preliminary report and felt that “PSD’s only concern seems to be to defend its government until 2015, without any or concerns about the truth “. .
President Chegi also said that he “categorically rejects” the changes proposed by the PS, pointing out that this is a “foot-washing document” and represents “disrespect for the commission” and the work of deputies.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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