The president of the republic admitted on Thursday that he would speak publicly about the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Political Custody Administration TAP before the Council of State in a week’s time after reading the final report.
“The subject is one on which the President of the Republic can pronounce: TAP,” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa told journalists, leaving the Ismaili Center in Lisbon, noting, “I have been thinking and I think I have the obligation”.
“My idea is this: I will read the report and if I have something to say on this subject, I will say it first to the head of state, who will meet in a week. And after telling the Council of State, depending of what I say or not to the Council of State, I say in public,” he added.
Earlier, the head of state said he still does not know “the final text” of the report of this committee of inquiry, nor has he followed the vote in the committee, which took place this afternoon.
“I don’t normally comment on these things because they don’t come to the President of the Republic. Laws come to the President of the Republic, the state of emergency comes, the call for a referendum comes, the results – the conclusions of the commissions of inquiry don’t come, it is parliamentary work that only concerns parliament,” he said.
However, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended that TAP is “a subject on which the President of the Republic can speak”.
This Commission of Inquiry, which began its work in February, was proposed by the Bloco de Esquerda, after the controversial compensation of half a million euros paid to Alexandra Reis – who then passed through the NAV and was Secretary of State for Finance – for your departure from TAP.
The President of the Republic spoke to journalists after taking part in a commemoration ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the Ismaili Center in Lisbon, inaugurated in 1998 by the then head of state, Jorge Sampaio.
On this occasion, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa awarded the Ismaili Center the insignia of an honorary member of the Order of Merit, once again praising the Ismailis for defending the values ”of peace, justice, dialogue”,
The head of state welcomed the fact that the Ismaili community in Portugal is now represented by a woman, Yasmin Bhudarally.
Source: DN
