The Union of Prosecutors (UMMP) has created a working group to develop proposals for legislative changes that will stop the violation of judicial secrecy, “entropy” in the system, the perpetrators of which “must be properly punished.”
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the SMMP expressed “concerns about information leaks in court proceedings” and, “as part of its statutory responsibilities to ensure the dignity and confidence of the judiciary” announced the creation of a “specific work group”. .
Its purpose will be to “consider and promote, together with the legislature, proposals that will stop the violation of judicial secrecy and subsequent revelations in the public sphere, bearing in mind that they represent entropy in the judicial panorama and that their authors must be duly punished” .
“While emphasizing that, although the percentage of known cases of violation of judicial secrecy is about one percent of processes subject to judicial secrecy and which are difficult to investigate, the CMMP nevertheless has no doubt that this is a phenomenon that reaches to the very heart of justice . and the perception of this by citizens,” the statement says.
The union says it is “focused on developing the measures needed to improve the justice system,” noting that it will “publish the final findings of the working group in due course” to “make a rigorous and in-depth contribution to preventing and combating and remember that punishment for violating the secrecy of justice is a crime.”
CNN recently published the contents of wiretaps involving former Prime Minister António Costa as part of Operation Influential Man, but not directly related to this process, revealing conversations with then Infrastructure Minister João Galamba in which the former CEO ordered Galamba to fire the former TAP CEO for political reasons.
After the disclosure of these wiretaps, the prosecutor’s office ordered an investigation into the information leak.
In response to the leaked wiretaps, subscribers to a manifesto calling for justice reform and criticizing the actions of the government ministry, namely Operation Influencer, which led to the fall of António Costa’s government, asked for an “explanation” in a statement. from the Ministry of State and its hierarchy, namely from the Attorney General of the Republic,” Lucilia Gago.
For the subscribers of this manifesto, the disclosure of the wiretaps “is yet another point, among other things, in violation of the fundamental rules of the democratic rule of law with the involvement and participation of those responsible for the justice and social communications sectors.” which should be in the first line of his defense,” criticizing not only the disclosure, but also its transcription, as well as the fact that it was considered to be of “criminal significance to an ongoing criminal case.”
PS Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos said the PGR must provide clarification on the “violation of the law” in revealing the wiretaps, considering the opening of an investigation insufficient, and today the PAN asked Lucilia Gago to be heard in Parliament to “report” on the observance of constitutional and legal guarantees to protect judicial secrecy.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said that the leakage of information from the secrecy of justice is “one of the important points” that should be taken into account when reforming the sector, given that there is agreement in Portugal on the need to rethink justice. .
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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