“Incomprehensible SIS call”: PSD seeks clarification from the government

PSD Parliamentary Group President Joaquim Miranda Sarmento reacted this Saturday to the controversy over reports published between Infrastructure Minister Joao Galamba and a former adviser demanding clarification from Prime Minister António Costa regarding SIS intervention [Serviço de Informações de Segurança].

“The SIS call is incomprehensible,” says Joaquim Miranda Sarmento. “What the country needs is for the prime minister to provide all the clarifications,” he adds.

The Social Democrat leaves the question: “What secrets, what information that compromises the government, is there in this computer, which justifies contacting the SIS?”

“Today, from the messages exchanged between Joao Galamba and his former adviser, it is clear that the former adviser wanted to show the recordings of the meeting between the PS parliamentary group and the former CEO. [presidente executiva] on the eve of the meeting, the adviser wanted to show these notes from the TAR, the minister prevented the publication of these notes, and only after the statement, which mentions the name of the adviser, did he understand that he should hand over the notes,” he said.

The chairman of the PSD parliamentary group also guarantees that “the Minister of Infrastructure was caught in an attempt to lie.”

Joaquim Miranda Sarmento concluded that “any Portuguese who remembers the last 40 years does not find situations in government that have reached this level of seriousness.”

ABOUT cm established that Galamba’s former deputy was involved in physical confrontations with three people from the office, one of whom would be hospitalized, and took home a computer that was later found and taken to the SIS – Information and Security Service, which will now analyze this, as a result of a complaint from Ministry of Infrastructure. This was reported by sources in the office of Galamba. cm that the glass is broken.