The PSD announced on Wednesday that it would vote against the report of the parliamentary inquiry committee on TAP, contest the conclusion that there was no political interference in the company and present its own conclusions in writing.
These PSD decisions were announced to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic by Social Democratic deputy Paulo Moniz, after the press conference in which the preliminary version of the report was presented, written by PS deputy Ana Paula Bernardo.
Paulo Moniz accused the PS of not resisting the temptation to “tailor” a document so that no political conclusions would be drawn from this parliamentary commission of inquiry of Prime Minister António Costa.
In addition to challenging the conclusion that there was no political interference in TAP, by refuting that the interference was “patent”, the PSD also criticizes the report for not analyzing the use of secret services to recover the computer used by Frederico from the Ministry of Infrastructure has declined. Pinheiro, former assistant minister João Galamba.
“These are all sufficient reasons for the PSD to vote against this report,” said the Social Democratic deputy, adding that his party will present in writing “its conclusions” of the parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the political custody of TAP Management.
IL refuses “farce” and does not propose amendments to the report
The IL leader announced this Wednesday that his party will not submit proposals to amend the preliminary report of the Commission of Inquiry to TAP for not wanting to “participate in farces”, classifying the document as a “work of fiction”.
Speaking to journalists in parliament, Rui Rocha argued that the report was made “against reality, against the Assembly of the Republic itself” and “against the Portuguese themselves”.
“There is a brutal difference between what is said in the report and what the Portuguese have been able to follow for days, weeks and that is why there is a total mystification here. We are faced with a fictional work that contradicts reality and what the Portuguese know”, criticized.
Rui Rocha stated that IL makes a “clearly negative assessment of what is the conclusion and recommendation” of the report and will not “participate in farces” or “attempts to present a truth that contradicts what the Portuguese have seen and followed”.
“In view of this, we will not even make any proposal to change the report, because we do not participate in farces,” he stressed.
The IL leader recalled that the Prime Minister had said at the start of the Commission of Inquiry into TAP that “he would like the truth to be discovered, no matter who it hurts”, but believed that these truths were “under the report”.
“What we see here is painstaking work in this report in that, given these conclusions and recommendations, the prime minister cannot draw any political consequences himself,” he said.
Rui Rocha questioned whether the preparation of the report was “preceded by preparatory meetings”, as “it would be difficult to provide a service more in line with António Costa’s wishes than with what has been done” .
BE says the report is not much different from what Costa or Galamba would have written
BE opined this Wednesday that the Commission of Inquiry’s preliminary report to TAP “is not much different” from what the Prime Minister or the Minister of Infrastructure would have written, pointing out an incomprehensible omission.
“In our opinion, the report [preliminar da Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito à Tutela Política da Gestão da TAP] it is not much different from what he would have written if it had been written by João Galamba or the Prime Minister, thus he removes from the table a relevant part of the events that took place in the parliamentary committee of inquiry, ”defended the group leader of the BE.
Pedro Filipe Soares said that BE will put forward proposals to amend the report, emphasizing that each conclusion will be voted on separately.
“The report is being voted conclusion by conclusion and therefore there are some that will even be unanimous and there are some that, if they are not in the report, deserve a negative assessment,” he told journalists in parliament after the presentation. of the preliminary report of the committee investigating TAP by the deputy rapporteur, the socialist Ana Paula Bernardo.
The blogger defended that this is “an omission” as “the country witnessed the work of the Commission of Inquiry which is not in the report”, something he labeled incomprehensible.
“And why aren’t they part of it? Why weren’t they part of the Commission of Inquiry’s assumptions? They can assess TAP’s political tutelage, they can even assess how decisions are made now, one of them is the privatization that the government wants to implement, they can evaluate the political decision-makers, in the first place João Galamba. So why is this not in the report?” he wondered.
According to Pedro Filipe Soares, it is about “a political approach in an attempt to remove the pressure that the Prime Minister himself had created”.
“António Costa said: I draw political consequences from the report of the Commission of Inquiry. He said this in response to the actions of Minister João Galamba in the first months of this year. The report is silent about the actions of Minister João. Galamba, what does the consequence that the Prime Minister can then say [que] there are no political consequences to be drawn, and to create a scene incomprehensible to the country, to those who attended the commission, and to keep in force the mandate of a minister who everyone understands, with a minimum of common sense, should not ” , considered.
The preliminary report, which has 180 pages, does not analyze the incidents that occurred in the buildings of the Ministry of Infrastructure with Frederico Pinheiro, nor the use of information services by the government to recover a computer taken by the former deputy of minister Joao Galamba.
According to the deputy rapporteur, “there was an attempt to avoid exposure to, and indeed any contamination of, the report with a series of actions, situations and discussions dragged to the TAP Commission of Inquiry”, but which “do not in fact constitute its purpose and, in some cases, are matters that require analysis and action in locations other than this committee”.
Parties can submit proposals until 10 July to amend this provisional version. The discussion and vote on the report in the parliamentary committee of inquiry is scheduled for July 13 and its evaluation in plenary for July 19.
Source: DN
