Ventura accuses Costa of retaliating against police officers involved in Operation Influential

This Wednesday, President Chegi accused the government of retaliating against the police authorities who carried out Operation Influential by not paying the PSP and GNR the same remuneration for the mission that was allocated to the judicial police.

“A political leader, even with the values ​​that polls ascribe to Chege, must always be responsible in his statements. However, today I have no doubt: this is retribution against the police authorities who, in fulfilling their functions and judicial decisions, carried out an operation that, considering António Costa as a suspect, overthrew the government of the Republic,” Andre Ventura said at a press conference at the headquarters -the party’s apartment in Lisbon.

Referring to the news that intelligence officers were increased and subjected to a career review at the same time as the assignment of a mission addition to judicial police agents, the Chegi leader felt that the “huge outrage” of the PSP and GNR over not receiving this mission allowance “could jeopardize stability public order.”

“They are not [polícias] that put our security at risk. It is you, the Prime Minister and your government, with your intransigence and vengeful spirit towards the police, who are calling into question this security scenario in which Portugal lives,” he said.

According to Ventura, it is not the police “who are questioning the holding of elections or sporting events in the next few weeks”, but rather António Costa and Minister José Luis Carneiro, “who, unlike what he has done with many other professional sectors, they are here they do nothing more than trample on, humiliate, put off, take away dignity.”

According to the Chega president, “the threat of sanctions, the opening of disciplinary proceedings and insinuations about connections with Chega show how out of place the government is” instead of solving the problem.

One solution, from the Chega leader’s point of view, would be to create a temporary fund until the new government comes to power, which would allow the payment of PSP and GNR missionary allowances. This task, he said, remained unresolved. to the Prime Minister in a letter which he said he sent to the official residence of S. Bento.

Andre Ventura’s problems did not end there: he challenged the PS and PSD to commit before the elections to pay this allowance to all police forces, proposing a written pre-election pledge between the three parties to this end.

According to President Chegi, the government’s first excuse for refusal was that they were under administration, but it was later learned that this executive “wants to launch a tender for the TGV and has made promises to the rural world.” , and the police rebel, so it “stops increasing.”

“Why do some people have money and others don’t?” – he asked.

Members of the PSP and GNR have staged several protests in recent weeks, demanding a raise identical to that given to the judicial police.

The protest began four weeks ago at the initiative of an agent and then spread throughout the country.