IL parliamentary leader Rodrigo Saraiva on Monday accused the culture minister of “little democratic culture” in his criticism of the functioning of the investigative commission into TAP, as the ruler is the voice of the prime minister.
After “a Prime Minister [António Costa] attempting to devalue the cases arising in his own government has now reached the pinnacle of a culture minister showing so little democratic culture that even other socialists demanded that he recant.” said Rodrigo Saraiva at the opening of the IL’s parliamentary days, which will take place this Monday and Tuesday in Funchal.
And he added: “We are not distracted. When Adão e Silva speaks, it is the voice of António Costa”.
IL parliamentary leader referred to the interview that the Minister of Culture, Adão e Silva, gave to TSF and Jornal de Notíciason what believed there were delegates acting as “prosecutors of 1980s American B-series cinema” on the committee of inquiry into TAP.
After the interview, the chairman of the TAP Commission of Inquiry, António Lacerda Sales, believed that the minister’s statements were a “disrespect” and a “deeply unfair characterization” of deputies’ work, and asked him to intervene Pull.
This Monday morning, in statements to journalists in Évora, Adão e Silva reiterated his criticism of the way the work of the Commission of Inquiry into TAP was taking place, refusing to “suspend the critical spirit” about the functioning of the Assembly of the Republic.
In his speech, Rodrigo Saraiva opined that the party has fulfilled its mission of “government supervision”, especially at a time when the PS confuses an absolute majority with “absolute power”.
The IL parliamentary leader added that the executive is headed by António Costa “it goes from error to error, from omission to omission, from scandal to scandal, showing that the PS is the greatest force blocking the country”.
“It was already so in the legislature of ‘things’, in which it had the docile support of the PCP and the Left Bloc, parties that António Costa managed to stun so well. Almost a year and a half, retaining all the mistakes of the past and annoying others, with this extra dose of arrogance from those who pretend they don’t have to answer to the Portuguese just because they now have more seats in parliament,” he criticized.
The deputy took stock of the questions, requests and proposals made during this legislature, arguing that the presence of the IL “has become even more indispensable to the socialist absolutism and steamroller of this majority that does not like to be controlled.” to cope”.
“António Costa is annoyed and irritated by our intervention and by our intervention and by our protagonists. Well, Prime Minister, then be patient. Get used to it. It is because it is not the Portuguese and the opposition parties who have to get used to it, the absolute majority , it is really António Costa who has to get used to democracy,” he said.
Rodrigo Saraiva also highlighted the “damaging management of the TAP file”, referring to the fact that the company “became the mirror of António Costa” who walks in “zigzag”.
The parliamentarian also highlighted the party’s denunciation of the “unacceptable instrumentalization of the information services”, emphasizing that “the Portuguese state’s information system cannot be at the mercy of party interests”.
Source: DN
