Leader Chegi on Tuesday demanded an explanation from the interior minister in parliament over the dismissal of the national director of the PSP and expressed hope that it would not be a “cleansing” for party purposes.
“This morning I instructed the parliamentary group to quickly summon the minister to parliament so that she can explain the reasons why she unilaterally fired,” the national director of the PSP said.
Andre Ventura spoke to journalists during a visit to Feira da Ladra in Lisbon and commented on the government’s decision, announced on Monday, to dismiss PSP national director José Barros Correia, who has held the post since then. September last year.
President Chegi stated that “it was important that the minister went to the sacristy and explained this”, given that “it is a little strange the way this dismissal was carried out, the way it became known, and also the whole background that, apparently exists.”
Because the case “involves police forces,” such a suspension should not be “simply taken for granted,” Ventura argued.
“There could be many reasons, one of them could be a lack of political trust, another could be a negative assessment of the work, and what was not positive was that it was a political purge, and parliament is obliged to carry out this check,” remains.
Andre Ventura noted that José Barros Correia “has been at various times the critical voice of the government, both previous and current, on the issue of the additional mission assigned to the police, he has been on their side in many of these moments” and “the minister asked for it national director PSP to contain inorganic demands.”
“If this is so, then this is a serious sign, because this is not a justification of trust, this is a matter of cleansing,” he emphasized, also expressing the hope that “the process of political reorganization is not underway.”
President Chegi considered that governments “legitimately” make decisions to change those in charge because they understand “that their cycle has come to an end” or for “political reasons.”
“What is less legal and inappropriate, or at least impractical, is that the current government is engaging in a purge where they are replacing pink cards with orange cards, which is not positive,” he said.
On this occasion, the Chegi leader was asked about criticism of his party for its response to the attacks on immigrants that occurred in Porto late last week, and he rejected the idea of ”hate propaganda”.
“We said we condemn all types of violence and if these people have committed or committed acts of aggression against these people, they must be severely punished. We cannot ignore the other side of the story, and the other side of the story is that the center of Porto has been the target of attacks, violence and threats for months now, and some of these threats also come from these immigrant groups, because we are allowing completely uncontrolled immigration into Portugal,” he insisted.
Andre Ventura also said he would be in Porto on Friday “to talk to the shop owners and to talk to the immigrants if they are there,” refusing to be afraid.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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