The finance minister said on Tuesday that the invitation to Alexandre Reis as secretary of state was the result of information and opinions he had collected over time, and accused the PSD and IL of creating a “lodge”.
Fernando Medina spoke at a parliamentary hearing before the Commission on Budget and Finance (COF) in the context of Chega’s powerful request for measures to reduce VAT on essential goods.
“What happened during these months was that the deputies, namely from the IL and the SDP, created a lie about me that was supposed to say that I was in the know,” he said, participating in an exchange of pennants with an MP from the SDP. Paulo Moniz.
Fernando Medina was answering the second round of questions to IL MP Cotrim Figueiredo, who throughout the hearing questioned him about the reason for the appointment of Alexandra Reis as Minister of Finance, when he defended that all the responsible persons heard “were unanimous”. in that neither his team at the Treasury Department was aware of the process, nor the previous team.
“There is not a single voice that would say otherwise. What happened during those months was really — let me spare no words — a lie spread by IL,” he said as Paulo Moniz made a digression. , which led the minister to say, “You can use a prettier word: don’t tell the truth.”
Paulo Moniz responded that “it’s on the other side”, which in turn prompted Medina’s response that “lying is the answer to the accusation” to which he was “many times exposed”.
The ruler also claimed that Alexandra Reis had the “skill” to fill the position, which is why he made this invitation.
“As regards the appointment of engineer Alexandra Reis to the position of Secretary of State, it was, in fact, the result of a set of information and opinions that I had for a long time about engineer Alexandra Reis when I followed her professional path, and which motivated me to do it’s an invitation,” he said.
Medina also added that he “has the impression that after the parliamentary hearings” of Alexandra Reis, “there are MPs who already better understand the reason for her election as finance minister.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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