Enough explanations about the meeting of the TAR Director General with deputies and government advisers

The President of Chega considered this Wednesday that Prime Minister Antonio Costa and PS parliamentary leader Eurico Brillante Diaz should explain the meeting between socialist deputies, government advisers and the CEO of TAP in January.

Speaking to reporters in the Assembly of the Republic, André Ventura said “there are explanations that both Eurico Brillante Diaz and António Costa owe to the country,” arguing that the purpose of this meeting on the eve of the executive president from TAP to provide clarification in Parliament “clearly conditioned the testimony » Christine Urmier-Widener.

Chegi’s leader felt it was a “secret and secret meeting” and accused the PS of lack of ethics, saying he hoped the clarifications he asked for could be provided during that Wednesday. If the prime minister does not do so, Chega will formally meet him in the Assembly of the Republic.

This is a meeting held on 17 January, the day before Christine Urmier-Widener entered Parliament, to provide clarification on the resignation of former administrator Alexandra Reis, which will be attended by PS deputies and advisers, as well as members’ cabinet heads. , from the government.

According to the Director General, the initiative for this meeting came from the Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, who at that time was already Joao Galamba.

Speaking to reporters, Ventura also asked if there were “political implications” of what was found by the TAR parliamentary commission of inquiry, noting that the revelations made by the parliamentary commission of inquiry “do a good job of showing how the government and members of the government and the influence network and complicity, which was created and which in recent years is taking over or taking over the state.

Chega’s leader also believed that Socialist MP Carlos Pereira, the PS’s coordinator in the parliamentary commission of inquiry and whom TAR’s executive president said was present at the meeting, was “unable to continue” part of that commission.

Asked if he follows the resignation of Infrastructure Minister João Galamba by the Liberal Initiative, President Chega said “tendentially yes” but added that it is necessary to “hear an explanation from the rulers before making a formal announcement.” resignation letter.”

“If the answer PS should give the answer she gave last night [terça-feira]that it was just a preparatory meeting, so yes, I think that either there are political consequences, or the country stops believing in what is happening here in parliament,” he defended.

Ventura noted that the position of Infrastructure Ministers Joao Galamba and Finance Ministers Fernando Medina “was already difficult and is becoming more and more precarious.”

Among the “worrisome points” identified in Parliament, Chegi’s leader also pointed to “an attempt to change the flight of the President of the Republic”, considering that this could be “a crime for mercenary purposes or otherwise.”

“The misuse of an attempt to influence the operation of the airline, by changing the flight, was blocked only by the obvious common sense of the President of the Republic and the CEO himself. If this common sense did not prevail today, we could talk about the President of the Republic entangled in a completely unfortunate web of trade in influence, and this well shows how the government and the PS deal with the affairs of the state, ”he criticized.

On Tuesday, TAP’s CEO did not deny that the company had received an email from former Secretary of State for Infrastructure Hugo Mendez asking them to postpone a flight from Mozambique that carried the President of the Republic as a passenger, who allegedly needed to stay two more days in Maputo. .

According to an “email” cited by MP Bernardo Blanco of the Liberal Initiative, Hugo Méndez stressed that it was important to keep Marcelo Rebela de Souza as an ally of TAP.