PCP leader Paulo Raimundo said on Saturday that the involvement of former Defense Secretary Marco Capitão Ferreira in a judicial proceeding is not an isolated case and defended the need for “serious people” to hold public office. cover.
“The question that arises is that we are not dealing with an isolated case, which becomes a problem, because it is an additional case to add to a series of situations that we all accompany,” said the secretary-general of the PCP against journalists. Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in the Guarda district.
Paulo Raimundo added that Portugal is “not a quagmire because there are more good people than bad people” in the country.
“In our country there are honest people, people with the capacity to make public commitments. What we need is that these good people, serious and committed to everyone’s life and to the country itself, take the fate of the country into their own hands . is the big question,” he defended.
On Friday, the President of the Republic accepted the resignation of Marco Capitão Ferreira, proposed by Prime Minister António Costa.
The resignation proposal was released by the Prime Minister’s office at 09:00, stating that “it was forwarded to him by the Minister of National Defense [Helena Carreiras]at his own request”.
However, the resigned Secretary of State for Defense was named as a defendant under the “Perfect Storm” trial, which led to judicial police searching the Ministry of Defence.
Marco Capitão Ferreira is suspected of crimes of corruption and economic participation in business.
“We are facing a situation that is controlled from a judicial point of view, this is the fundamental question. And we can say that justice is working and playing its role,” emphasized the PCP’s secretary-general, on the sidelines of a visit to the Coa Museum.
Source: DN
