Chega has already filed a petition to create a commission to investigate the twins’ case.

Chega confirmed on Wednesday that she had submitted a request signed by 50 MPs to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of Portuguese-Brazilian twins who received millions of euros in treatment.

Speaking to reporters in the Assembly of the Republic, President Chegi noted that the party “this morning conveyed the usual, routine request” for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, a proposal that will have to be voted on in plenary session. , but “was replaced by a potestative requirement,” that is, having a mandatory nature.

“I informed the President of the Assembly of the Republic that we have decided to request the potential creation of a commission of inquiry,” he indicated, noting that the request was signed by “all” 50 Chega deputies.

This possibility was raised by Andre Ventura on Tuesday when he announced that he would appoint a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins being treated at the Santa Maria hospital if there was no agreement from parliament. PSD by Friday.

The Chegi leader said that the SDP parliamentary leader told him this morning that the SDP would not follow this proposal in the plenary vote, and that is why the party decided to continue with the parliamentary inquiry.

Andre Ventura explained that “only a majority will decide in favor of a commission of inquiry with PS or PSD.” The Socialists also refused to support this initiative.

President Chegi felt that the work of the commission of inquiry “should begin immediately” and said that “it will begin this legislative session, as requested” by his party.

Andre Ventura also said that a parliamentary group will meet “before the end of the week” to determine the deputies who will join this commission of inquiry.

“I think we have all the conditions so that from next week we can start looking at the calendar of the commission of inquiry and see when it can begin its functions and how it will be organized from now on,” he said.

The Chegi leader expressed “some disappointment and also some surprise” at the position of the Socialists and Social Democrats, “taking into account what is involved in this matter and the statements that various leaders and government officials have made over the past two weeks regarding about the importance of finding out the truth, and the importance that a serious investigation can have in restoring the trust of citizens.”

“I very much regret the decision of the PS and SDP in this matter, because it is impossible not to think or impossible to ignore or impossible not to suspect that this attitude, given the elements that have become known in recent days, in recent months, is nothing more than an attempt to protect a person or personality, and this is unacceptable in a democracy,” he criticized.

Andre Ventura argued that “no arguments, from the existence of an investigation carried out by the prosecutor’s office, to the argument that persons holding political positions at that time are no longer in office, or to an argument that includes or may include the President of the Republic , nothing is acceptable.”

“There cannot be taboo topics that parliament is afraid to investigate, and there can be no taboo topics in a parliamentary commission of inquiry,” he said.

The case of two twins living in Brazil who acquired Portuguese citizenship and received the drug Zolgensma in Portugal in 2020, worth a total of four million euros, was published by TVI in November and is still being investigated by the Public Organization. Prosecutor’s Office – General Republic of the Republic (GGR).

The Inspectorate General of Medical Activities (IGAS) has already concluded that these children’s access to neuropediatric consultations was unlawful.