This Monday, Chega presented her proposal to set up a parliamentary commission of inquiry to assess the “legitimacy and political responsibility” in the recovery of the computer of former Assistant Minister Joao Galamba and the existence of “political interference” in the activities of the SIS in the country. past.
According to a proposal circulated among journalists, Chega proposes to set up a commission of inquiry, “which should operate for 120 days, four months, in order to “assess the legality and political responsibility associated with the entire process regarding the return of the laptop that was in the possession of Frederico Pinheiro , former deputy of the Ministry of Infrastructure”.
Cheg’s parliamentary group also wants parliament to investigate whether “this was a one-off case or, on the other hand, whether there were other situations of political interference in the management of the activities of the SIS and, ultimately, the SIRP in the current legislature. “, as well as in previous governments led by António Costa.
The far-right party’s proposal is for the Assembly of the Republic to assess whether there has been “misuse in the aforementioned temporal and institutional space of the information services of the Portuguese Republic in order to create conditions or political assistance of the government or party”. .
At a press conference at Chega headquarters, André Ventura said that his draft of “a possible parliamentary commission of inquiry to evaluate the work of the Security Information Service (SIS) and the Information System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP), as well as the government’s political tutelage over these institutions” is not limited to the current legislature and aims to “understand whether there is reason to fear manipulation or misuse of the information service by the government since 2015”.
Leader Chegi also said that he has “strong suspicions of misusing the intelligence service to protect members of the government or to protect the position of a particular member of the government”, and with this instruction, he wants the parliament to give “a signal to the country that it will not refuse from investigating a serious situation like this.”
Asked what he expects from the hearings of Federico Pinheiro and the Minister of Infrastructure in the TAP Commission of Inquiry scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Ventura believes the Assembly of the Republic “has an opportunity this week to show the country” that “a serious scrutiny is underway even in absolute majority.”
Ventura indicated that Chega would demand that the prime minister remove the “political fallout” after what came to light.
The intention to propose a parliamentary inquiry into the actions of the “secretaries” in this case has been publicly expressed since 2015 by Andre Ventura on Friday.
At the beginning of the month, the Liberal Initiative had already proposed the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the activities of the SIS in order to “clarify the political, legal or other responsibility associated with the performance” of this service. in the restoration of the computer used by Frederico Pinheiro.
The Liberals also want Parliament to investigate “the practice of the current government with regard to the intelligence services, namely, whether it is customary or customary to issue guidelines, orders, directions or directives so that they carry out their own and exclusive actions of subjects with police functions.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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