PSD is awaiting the opinion of the Transparency Commission, which can be extended to CGD

PSD said this Friday that despite the departure of Carlos Pereira from the TAP investigation, the opinion it requested from the transparency committee is still justified and it acknowledges that it can be extended to the Caixa Geral de Depósitos case.

“As you remember, the PSD drew attention, when it became known about the secret meeting, that it was necessary to guarantee full transparency and impartiality in the work of the commission, and sent a request to the parliamentary commission on transparency,” Paulo said. Moniz, PSD coordinator for the TAP survey, in statements to journalists.

At that time, the Social Democrats requested an opinion on the presence of the then Socialist coordinator in the commission of inquiry into the activities of the TAP, Carlos Pereira, at a meeting with the executive president of the company on the eve of the January parliamentary elections. hearing, which is currently being prepared.

When asked if this opinion does not devalue the statement about the withdrawal of the socialist deputy from the commission, Paulo Moniz answered in the negative.

If the PSD intends, as requested by IL, to assess whether MP Carlos Pereira was in a “judicial situation” when he was the rapporteur of the Commission of Inquiry on the recapitalization of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), in 2017 Paulo Moniz wanted to separate the two dimensions.

“From our point of view, it seems implausible to revise a report that has been closed, it is another matter to wait for the conclusions of the parliamentary committee on transparency, which can analyze the variables that we know today,” he said.

It is formally and legally impossible for PSD to reopen a report that was closed in 2017.

“But this issue will definitely be analyzed in the transparency commission. This is another factor that should have a political reading,” he said.

PS’s coordinator in the TAP commission of inquiry, Carlos Pereira, said this Friday that he would leave this parliamentary body in order to be able to give it the “necessary calm”, ending what he called “a climate of suspicion”.

The departure of the parliamentary committee to investigate TAP, announced this Friday by MP Carlos Pereira, follows a report published on Thursday by the newspaper Correio da Manhã of a proposed pardon of part (66,000 euros) of the debt. Carlos Pereira as a surety for a company that went bankrupt in 2015.

The PS MP added that he did not leave the committee because “the debt was forgiven” by Caixa Geral de Depósitos, adding that it was “a lie that there was a forgiveness”, services or incompatibilities.