Marcelo Rebelo de Souza broke off relationship with son over twins case

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, broke off relations with his son because of the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins treated at the Santa Maria hospital, the Brazilian newspaper Correio reported. Brasiliense.

Nuno Rebelo de Souza approached him with a request to speed up the treatment of children for four million euros with the drug Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy.

“This is unforgivable because he knows that I have a social and political position, and I pay for it. There are worse things in life. I don’t know if he will be held responsible. I don’t care. benefits of cutting,” he said. Marcelo Rebelo de Souza.

Relations between them were already strained, but the incident with the twins hastened their complete separation. “He is 51 years old. If he were my eldest and favorite grandson, 20 years old, I would feel appropriate. But at 51, he is older and vaccinated,” said the President of the Republic.

In October 2019, the Presidency received an email from Nuno Rebelo de Sousa regarding the treatment of Portuguese-Brazilian twins. At that moment, the head of state was close to heart surgery and put the matter aside. The Civil Chamber found it impossible to intervene.

The case became public in November. “I had to resort to message recovery technology [trocadas com o filho]. I didn’t remember the twins,” he said.

A few days earlier, António Costa, the target of Operation Influential Man, resigned as prime minister. “I consoled him about his case, and he consoled me about the twins’ case,” he said.

Children were seeking treatment irregularly, the General Inspectorate of Health confirmed this month.