BE wants João Galamba’s actions against the Ministry of Infrastructure to be included in the conclusions of the Commission of Inquiry’s report to TAP, a document in which it proposes to remedy “structural omissions”.
At a press conference in parliament, BE deputy Pedro Filipe Soares presented the proposed amendments to the preliminary report of the parliamentary inquiry commission released last week by the PS rapporteur, emphasizing that the blockers were “very thin” in the number of changes they proposed, assuring that “none of them are baseless” and therefore “it will take a lot of imagination before the PS doesn’t approve them”.
“Our amendments are not a structural change to the document, but are the solution of structural omissions that the document has that would be a lack of truth if they were maintained (…) If the goal is to achieve the truth, they can only be accepted. It is this challenge that I leave to the PS,” he said.
Recalling that the Committee of Inquiry proposed by BE “has been created to assess the political responsibility of TAP’s custody”, Pedro Filipe Soares made it clear that “it is not acceptable that part of the work of the commission is omitted from the report and therefore what is related to the conduct, with the board of João Galamba at the head of the Ministry of Infrastructure, must also be mentioned in the report of the CPI”.
“In what symbolizes the promiscuity between the party and the public interest, the meeting of the PS faction with the CEO of TAP is illustrative of this. It is not acceptable and cannot be removed from the report,” he added.
Following what came out of this and other meetings and “failing the whole process, neglecting the existence of these meetings, an explosive broth was created that later came to signify at the Ministry of Infrastructure on April 26,” defended the BE deputy.
“We are not distancing the circumstance created by a minister who did not want an open relationship with transparency, with the truth, with the country and with the CPI from what happened on the night of the 26th,” he added.
While there is “a lot to clarify about what happened that night”, for Pedro Filipe Soares “it is unequivocal that there was a political action by Minister João Galamba that led to an increase in tensions within his own team caused by the questions that the CPI did”.
“There are elements to be drawn from a political conclusion about how João Galamba, the last of the Minister of Infrastructure, a member of the PS government, had custody of TAP and this process in 2023. We will not accept 2023 being removed from the works of this CPI,” he stressed.
Source: DN
