Lacerda Sales, chair of the TAP inquiry committee, asked the Minister of Culture for a retraction. Pedro Adão e Silva refused. And he went even further in his response to the Socialist deputy: “I can even expand on the reading I’m doing of what the CPI was”. And elaborated: “Insult the Assembly? I don’t see why. The government is accountable to the Assembly, but nowhere is it written that ministers must suspend their critical spirit towards the functioning of parliament”.
But it didn’t stop there. The minister endorsed everything he thinks and said in the interview with TSF and JN. And the new statements, in addition to the “critical spirit” he claims, are based on the fact that Lacerda Sales’s criticism “only binds the chairman of the committee of inquiry,” a parliamentary source told DN, and not the Socialist deputies of the CPI or even the parliamentary group.
Incidentally, not everyone shares, according to the DN, the lecture of the former Secretary of State for Health who “unnecessarily opened another case”.
And if Alexandra Leitão, on CNN Portugal, and Isabel Moreira, on Twitter, agreed on the “pains” of Lacerda Sales – a phrase used by a delegate of the DN – “many” are the ones who agree with the ” approach” of the Minister of Culture that “articulate what many of us, perhaps the vast majority, think. O [Pedro] Adão e Silva even cautiously said that a political analysis should be made of what happened at the Ministry of Infrastructure, which is obvious, but saying that none of that was a matter for the parliamentary committeea parliamentary source told DN.
Alexandra Leitão has the exact opposite point of view. And besides the fact that the statements of Pedro Adão e Silva were “downright unhappy for a Minister of the Republic”, he noted that “these are statements that a Minister of the Republic would not make if he did not have an absolute majority”.
“I would even say,” stressed the former Socialist minister, “that many of the most complex circumstances that have arisen in the committee were caused by events that took place within the framework of the government itself.”
Isabel Moreira, on the other hand, limited itself to a “well done” to the fact that Lacerda Sales said that the statements made by the Minister of Culture are “a disrespect”.
Pedro Adão e Silva, yesterday, when he reaffirmed what he said in the interview and refused to apologize, insisted that “questions about who you are currently exchanging text messages with and the questioning tone are incomprehensible.”.
And what did the minister say that irritated Lacerda Sales so much? “Investigating on non-stop nights, to find out if the phone was spoken at 10:00 or 10:50, whether it was before or after, with the deputies being a kind of proxy for 1980s American B-series cinemaThat is, “The deterioration of the political climate.”
The minister who believes that his opinion is “shared by many Portuguese” therefore insists that “there were some moments when democracy was not built” and even leaves advice to those who criticize him for “not having the critical mind suspended”. .
“Just as members of the government should be fully available to receive criticism every day at all times, I fail to see why they cannot criticize and express critical reflections on the functioning of other bodies”, maintains.
Pedro Adão e Silva even questions why “making critical remarks has become a disrespect”, concluding that “it is really an example and symptom of what is a very negative evolution that I see in the relationship between political institutions and social communication”.
And for those “used to make careers with round statements, in which they say nothing” he left a certainty: “Don’t count on me for round statements that mean nothing”.
Pedro Filipe Soares, parliamentary leader of the BE, believed the minister’s statements, and Lacerda Sales’s response, are part of a diversion of “attention” as the discussion of the CPI report approaches.
“This is the culture of the government’s political coordination: it’s not solving its own problems or the country’s and thinks we’re fools,” he said.
For his part, the PSD leader accused Pedro Adão e Silva of “arrogance and intellectual pedantry” saying that “it is nothing new” because “for years he has been talking about an alleged independence of opinion, but he has never stopped being an employee of the socialist narrative”.
Yesterday was also marked by another mistake in government involving the Minister of Culture and the Minister of the Interior.
Pedro Adão e Silva believes that “humor and cartoons should be a space that should enjoy particular autonomy and editorial non-interference”.
José Luís Carneiro reported that he said “with the chairman of the board of directors of RTP to express his displeasure”.
in cause, a cartoon that alludes to the French reality [o caso Nahel] where a police officer shoots at a target “without the target representing a white man being hit, and the target representing a black man riddled with bullets”.
PSD has already questioned RTP’s administration, Chega suggested hearing those in charge of the public channel and the ERC, PSP and unions to file a criminal complaint with the MP.
Source: DN
