European Council President-elect António Costa said on Tuesday that he does not have the “same ethical standards” as the republic’s attorney general, Lucilia Gago, who said the former prime minister resigned because he wanted to .
In an interview with the channel NOWThe former ruler said that he would now make the same decision to resign, “knowing what was known at that time,” and left a guarantee: “I will no longer be prime minister.”
Costa expressed regret over the decision of the President of the Republic to dissolve Parliament and call early elections, recalling that “there was someone” who “could have replaced him”, referring to the head of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno. He also found it “strange” that former minister and former mayor Fernando Medina is accused in the Tutti Frutti affair for “a subsidy that he did not give, at a meeting that he did not attend”.