The chairman of the PSD said in Palmela on Monday that the stopover in Budapest of the Air Force Falcon 50, so that the prime minister can attend a football match, is “a very strange situation”.
“I find the situation very strange, very strange, frankly. And it is strange from the start for two reasons: first, because about 20 days have passed without any official notification of this move, the framework, the justification, the way it happened,” Luís Montenegro told journalists during the “Sentir Portugal” initiative, which is taking place this week in the Setúbal district.
“72 hours have passed since there was the first news of the publication of this circumstance and the Prime Minister’s explanation. I believe that if the situation could be explained as easily as the government communiqué apparently indicates, it is not clear why the trip was not was on the official program,” the PSD leader added.
For Luís Montenegro: “You don’t understand why the trip to Budapest was not justified and you don’t understand why you had 72 hours to give an answer that is so simple, regardless of the fact that the answer is the strangeness of this question engrossed. whole situation”.
The Social Democratic leader reacted this way to the note released this Monday by the Prime Minister’s Office, in which he says that António Costa was invited to the Europa League final between Sevilla and José Mourinho’s Roma, in Budapest, from the UEFA and whoever sat next to his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán, for protocol treatment, the observer said.
“On May 31, the Prime Minister traveled to Chisinau (Moldova) to participate in the European Political Community Summit, which took place the following morning. to the invitation addressed to him by the President of UEFA to attend the Europa League final match,” reads the above-mentioned note from the Prime Minister’s Office.
On May 31, António Costa, traveling in an Air Force Falcon 50, made a stopover in Budapest, Hungary, on his way to Moldova for the European Political Community Summit, without the stop appearing on his public agenda, as reported by the observer.
During the meeting with journalists, Luís Montenegro also faced the return of Deputy Pinto Moreira to the permanent parliamentary committees in which he participated before suspending his mandate because he had been appointed as a defendant in Operation Vortex.
“Deputies have their mandates. I was able to say this a month ago, but if you want me to repeat it, I have no problem repeating it: there is an individual dimension to the mandate. I can’t relate to that interfere – told me.
“And there is a collective, political dimension of the parliamentary group. And on this we withdraw the political confidence of the deputy,” Luís Montenegro added, pointing out that the deputies are legally and constitutionally obliged to carry out the parliamentary work in plenary assembly and in the committees of the Assembly of the Republic.
Source: DN
