Infrastructure Minister Joao Galamba submitted his resignation to Prime Minister António Costa on Tuesday.in favor of the necessary institutional calm,” reads the statement sent to the editorial office. after a dispute involving the Minister and the Security Information Service (SIS), which intervened in recovering the computer of Joao Galamba’s former assistant, Frederico Pinheiro.
“I am resigning despite the fact that I have never acted against the law or against the public interest, which I have always promoted and protected in my role as a public official,” he adds.
Regarding the recent controversy with the former MP, Galamba emphasizes that the Ministry of Finance “never sought to hide any fact or document.” “I repeat all the facts that I presented at the press conference about the events that took place, and I confirm that I always delivered to the PTP parliamentary commission of inquiry all the documentation that I had,” he says.
The former Minister of Infrastructure ends by apologizing to the Chief of Staff and the press advisers “who, even under conditions of aggression, have done everything to protect the interests of the state and who in these last days and in an unsteady way have seen the law in the state, their dignity has suffered.”
We will remind, on Friday it became known about the acquittal of former deputy Galamba Federico Pinheiro. According to the former assistant minister of infrastructure, Joao Galamba tried to withhold information from the TAP commission of inquiry. SIS reportedly intervened to return the computer that Frederico Pinheiro had taken home from the Ministry of Infrastructure.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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