The prime minister said on Tuesday he wants “the whole truth and it hurts who it hurts” in a parliamentary commission of inquiry into TAP, arguing that the country is always better off when it knows the truth.
António Costa spoke to reporters at the Foz Palace in Lisbon at a meeting to finalize the legislative process for a new law that would allow polytechnics to award doctoral degrees.
Asked if the government is concerned about what outgoing TAP executive president Christine Urmier-Widener will say on Tuesday in a parliamentary commission of inquiry, as well as the fact that SDP leader Luis Montenegro has accused the right of this company, Goncalo Pires, that she lied in the Assembly of the Republic, the prime minister replied, “Let there be no doubt, I never worry when it comes to finding out the truth.”
“Know the truth, if you know the truth, the country will not get worse,” the head of the executive branch stressed.
António Costa later emphasized that the country, on the contrary, “always gets better, whatever the truth may be, and hurts the one it hurts.”
Faced with journalists’ insistence on TAP and the implications the results of the commission of inquiry could have on his government, the prime minister limited himself to reaffirming the following principle: “The truth should never touch us.”
“For now, let’s not wait for the results and let those who work, work, supplement the reports. Then, if there are lessons, then the lessons are learned,” he added.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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