“To want to be with Jose Mourinho and support a Portuguese coach, a Portuguese player, a Portuguese team is always commendable, but António Costa has not put on the public agenda that he would be there, which means that somehow state equipment was used for purposes that, not being secret, were more private than political or public,” said André Ventura, who defended that “state equipment, supported by the state treasury and by the taxpayer, should not be used in this way”.
In a video released to journalists, Chega’s leader commented on The Observer’s news that the Prime Minister was making a stopover in Budapest – when traveling in an Air Force Falcon 50 – where he and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán .
“It’s a huge political hypocrisy and a huge immorality,” Ventura criticized.
The chairman of the far-right party also believed that the situation could be “an irregularity, possibly even an illegality, but above all a huge immorality”, accusing the prime minister of “using the public apparatus for his own purposes”. .
“Equally regrettable, but what shows what political hypocrisy we are used to is using all means to get political support in Europe,” said André Ventura, noting that Costa “seems to be more concerned about the European campaign, with his next place, then with managing Portugal, with Portuguese politics”.
Chega’s leader pointed out that António Costa is critical of the Prime Minister of Hungary’s policies, but “nevertheless he is not shy about going to the Hungarian Prime Minister to finally get his support”.
The Observador newspaper reported today that António Costa made a stopover in Budapest on May 31, on his way to Moldova for the European Political Community Summit, without the event being scheduled.
According to the same newspaper, the head of the Portuguese government traveled in a Falcon 50 of the Portuguese Air Force and watched the Europa League football final match between Sevilla and Roma, the Italian team led by José Mourinho, with the Prime Minister. Hungarian minister Viktor Orbán.
The Lusa bureau questioned the Prime Minister’s office on the matter, but received no response so far.
Questioned by journalists on Friday, the president of the republic said he was aware of this scale.
“The prime minister went to an international meeting and understood that he had to give José Mourinho a hug,” underlined Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
In another video released to journalists today about the fires in Pedrógão Grande, which occurred six years ago and caused 66 deaths, the president of Chega also accused the prime minister of “huge hypocrisy” for “marking Pedrógão’s six years as if he had done his job” as the government “didn’t do its job and failed” those populations.
Chega’s leader turned to António Costa, saying that the government “didn’t know how to prevent, didn’t know how to recover, didn’t even allow political and other consequences to be drawn from the tragedies that happened”.
And he considered that the Prime Minister is “largely responsible for what happened” and the executive “largely responsible because so much suffering still affects these families today and affects these parts of Portugal”, without specifying what he was referring to .
Source: DN
