The head of the AD list for Europeans refused this Thursday to comment on the searches in the case of the twins, saying that it would be “civil and democratic irresponsibility” to comment on an ongoing investigation in which another candidate is involved.
At the end of a visit to a medical equipment company in Penafiel (Porto), Porto district, Sebastian Bugalho was asked about the searches carried out by the judicial police at the Ministry of Health, at the Santa Maria Hospital and at the Lacerda Sales store. house, former Secretary of State for Health Marta Temido, head of the PS list for Europeans and former minister of the sector.
“I am here for reasons that fill my heart as a Portuguese and a European, I will not poison the visit with disputes and comments about the ongoing investigation, which is under judicial secrecy and in which, in addition, a person who is participating in these elections is involved. That would be democratic discourtesy and we will not encourage it,” he said.
Asked about the “timing” of the investigation, just days before Sunday’s European elections, Bugalho also did not comment directly, saying only: “It seems clear to me that in the rule of law, justice and politics are separate. .There is a separation of powers.”
Faced with insistence from journalists that public disclosure of the investigation would be an “accident” in the final stages of the campaign, he again refused to “speculate on ongoing investigations.”
“I understand the persistence, I will not comment on any ongoing investigation into any nomination,” he said.
When asked whether this investigation could harm the candidacy of the PS and Marta Temido, he repeated his refusal to comment on an investigation about which he had no information, a “emptiness”.
“Our message is positive, I am not nationalizing the campaign either to take advantage of the government’s success or the opposition’s divisions,” he said.
Sebastian Bugallo praised the example of Oasipor, which opened six months ago and is still awaiting community certification to begin production.
“We are in a company that, during the pandemic, brought the first plane with masks and medical protective equipment. When the plant reaches full capacity, it will be able to supply about three thousand personalized surgical “kits” per day,” he said, emphasizing the importance of such companies , as This is, for European autonomy in health matters.
The candidate stressed that his campaign prefers to talk about “the good things that the Portuguese are doing.”
“I am campaigning throughout the country, with the population, with companies. I understand and understand the issues, but I understand that my day is marked by our election campaign and our message,” he emphasized.
The former Secretary of State for Health, António Lacerda Sales, was named as a defendant on Monday as part of the investigation into the case of twins who were treated at the Santa Maria Hospital, a source connected to the trial told Lusa this Thursday.
According to the same source, the former ruler’s home in Leiria was the subject of judicial searches on Monday.
As part of the same process, the Judicial Police (PJ) is this Thursday searching two units of the National Health Service (one of them the Santa Maria Hospital) and social security institutions.
A note from the Ministry of State (MP), published on the website of the Lisbon Regional Department of Investigation and Criminal Affairs (DIAP), said that the facts at stake could constitute “a crime of malfeasance, clearly competing with the crime of abuse of power.” , the crime of abuse of power under the Criminal Code and qualified fraud.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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