The leader of the PCP believed on Wednesday that “someone is lying” about communicating with the “secrets” of a computer taken from the Ministry of Infrastructure when he commented on statements by the Prime Minister’s deputy secretary of state on the matter .
“I think it would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that the inconsistencies were the responsibility of the Secretary of State. There are inconsistencies in history, no doubt about that. Someone is lying, no doubt about that.”said Paulo Raimundo in Leiria, after meeting with the President of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference and Bishop of Leiria-Fátima, José Ornelas.
Paulo Raimundo noted that he did not see Mendonça Mendes perform and reiterated that “someone lies and whoever lies cannot of course continue to lie to the Portuguese”.
Paulo Raimundo also defended that “it was so good that the country quickly got rid of these apparent controversies and problems”, to focus on what is “fundamental, solving people’s problems”.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s deputy secretary of state, Mendonça Mendes, confirmed that he had spoken with Minister João Galamba on the night of April 26, but rejected any causal link between that call and the report to the information services of the computer that of the Ministry of Infrastructure .
“I confirm that the Minister of Infrastructure called me on the night of April 26 to report on the events at the Ministry of Infrastructure,” said António Mendonça Mendes in parliament, in the context of a hearing required by the Liberal Initiative, about “his intervention in the framework of the recovery by SIS” of the duty computer of Frederico Pinheiro, former deputy of João Galamba.
Paulo Raimundo added that the issue of the €55 million paid to former TAP shareholder David Neeleman to leave the company is “an extraordinary story” after being asked about former minister Pedro Nuno Santos, who was elected in parliament on Tuesday. heard in the Economic Affairs. Commission.
“We had two people who bought TAP with TAP’s money and still took home 55 million. This is an extraordinary deal. It is for this and other reasons that TAP is the way it is, because in practice it is a listed company with a private management,” he stressed, reaffirming that the party “deeply disagrees” on the transfer of the largest national exporter to the private sector.
“This is a political and economic crime with perpetrators, in this particular case Pedro Nuno Santos is apparently responsible for and a lover of this economic crime,” he noted.
Former Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos said on Tuesday that the €55 million paid to former TAP shareholder David Neeleman to leave the company was a “meeting point” between the parties who disagreed, to avoid litigation.
“The EUR 55 million is the result of negotiations, […] it was the meeting point between two parties who basically had no agreement,” said Pedro Nuno Santos, adding that “the reference to the state was a litigation risk.”
Source: DN
