The Liberal Initiative (IL) is calling for the resignation of the Supervisory Board of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic (CFSIRP), as this entity deliberately ignores allegations made under oath by Frederico Pinheiro about the performance of the SIS.
This point of view was conveyed by Congresswoman Patrícia Gilvaz, after the meeting of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs with the three CFSIRP members on the performance of the Information and Security Services (SIS) in the recovery of a laptop computer used by Frederico Pinheiro of the Ministry of Infrastructure was included. that he had been dismissed hours earlier, on April 26, as an adviser to Minister João Galamba.
In front of the journalists, Patrícia Gilvaz referred to the communiqué released by the CFSIRP shortly before, at the end of the meeting of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, and argued that this text cannot negate the idea that the SIS action of a police character, i.e. illegal.
Patrícia Gilvaz also criticized the lack of contradiction between the SIRP authorities’ statements regarding the performance of the SIS and the statements made “under oath” by Frederico Pinheiro before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the management of TAP.
In the parliamentary inquiry committee TAP, this former deputy of Pedro Nuno Santos and Minister João Galamba complained that he had been forced and threatened by SIS to return the computer he had taken from the Ministry of Infrastructure, which allegedly contained secret state information. information. But the CFSIRP, in the communiqué released today, only refers to several public statements made by Frederico Pinheiro on April 28 and 29.
“There should have been a basic principle of contradiction here, but the CFSIRP does not demonstrate this need,” noted Patrícia Gilvaz, already after criticizing the Board of Trustees of the “secret” in another aspect:
“The articles in which the CFSIRP tries to justify the actions of the SIS on April 26 as a legal framework, if properly analyzed, contradict each other. The actions of the SIS that night were police,” concluded the deputy of the Liberal Initiative.
For the Liberal deputy, this CFSIRP “does not serve the democratic rule of law and is necessary to initiate a process leading to her resignation.”
“It is becoming clear that this CFSIRP is more concerned with protecting itself than protecting citizens’ rights, freedoms and safeguards. This Board of Trustees has been infected by the PS and government virus that neither learn nor regret,” he continues. criticized.
On a political level, Patrícia Gilvaz said that an opinion will be prepared by the Constitutional Affairs Committee on the dismissal process of the SIRP oversight board.
“It is a process that we will push for. If the conclusion is not dismissal, we will vote against,” he added.
Source: DN
