CDS-PP leader Diogo Moura said this Sunday that “the nature of the process” in which he is accused of fraud in the party’s internal elections “is an unfounded personal attack.”
In a written note sent to Lusa, Diogo Moura also states that Lisbon City Council (CML) President Carlos Moedas asked him to suspend his mandate as cultural councilor “to avoid the attacks that the opposition is directing at the executive.” “Metropolitan Municipality.
CML President Carlos Moedas (PSD) said this Sunday in a written statement sent to Lusa that he asked Diogo Moura “to suspend his mandate and he immediately agreed to this request.”
Prosecutors charged Diogo Moura, who is also vice-president of the CDS-PP, with “two crimes of aggravated electoral fraud” for allegedly trying to manipulate the votes of activists in two electoral acts (2019 and 2021). .). CNN Portugal reported this on Thursday.
According to this TV channel, Diogo Moura “knew that the secretary of the Lisbon district was at the polling station and sent her several messages asking her to put in the ballot boxes the votes from activists who did not show up at the polling station.” .
However, according to CNN Portugal, “the district secretary never complied with the requests” and the case was eventually reported and investigated by the PSP, with the centrist mayor now officially charged by the 4th Division of the DIAP (Department of Investigations and Criminal Cases) . ) Lisbon.
In a note sent this Sunday to Lusa, Diogo Moura states that this process “has nothing to do” with his duties as a councilor “nor with the decisions of the council”.
“The above-mentioned process is not only external to the CML – it is a party action – but it dates back to a time long before the current municipal mandate. I was not judged, condemned or condemned. personal foundation,” he asserts.
Diogo Moura claims he is “absolutely innocent” and guarantees he will prove it.
In a note sent to Luza today, Carlos Moedas explains that “despite the charges against him [a Diogo Moura] do not report to the person in charge as a councilor,” he believes, “the councilor has no conditions to continue to develop his work for the benefit of the people of Lisbon.”
On Friday, the PS and Bloc Esquerda defended the sacking of Diogo Moura.
The Lisbon Council of the PS recalled in a statement sent to Lusa that “on April 24, 2021, in an interview with Público, Carlos Moedas guaranteed that as mayor he would never work directly with him, a councilor under suspicion in any case.”
“None of this is happening now, with formal prosecution, which is a test of the word of Carlos Moedas,” the Socialists said in the note.
The PS party, which has three elected members in the Lisbon Chamber, demanded the immediate removal of Diogo Moura “from coordinating electoral actions in the municipality.”
The Bloc de Esquerda, also in a note sent to Lusa, also considered that Diogo Moura “does not have the conditions to retain political functions in the municipality of Lisbon,” calling on Carlos Moedas to replace the mayor in this post.
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