He spoke of “a direct crime”, an “apparent breach of legal secrecy” and awaited “clarification from the Public Prosecution Service” because, as a “hierarchical magistracy, it also has the duty, not only the right, but also the duty to to clarify publicly”.
That is, Lucília Gago, Attorney General of the Republic, since the “factuality seems obvious”, should provide “this public clarification”.
Augusto Santos Silva said that on Monday. Yesterday he did not want to repeat his position, but instead emphasized the “three points that emerged from the meeting of the leaders’ conference” that had earned “unanimous support”.
Today we force ourselves to consider three basic principles of the democratic rule of law that must be combined with each other: the independence of the judiciary; the freedom of political action and organization of parties and parliamentary groups; and the separation of powers. ” , he summed up.
The fourth point, a parliamentary source guarantees to DN, was the “approach” of the PGR’s “clarifications” to parliament, but “either because the matter is in secrecy from justice or because an answer has yet to be given to the PSD [a carta enviada pelo secretário-geral]it was decided that it would be considered later”.
The consensus, after the “topic is addressed to those interested because of the public statements already made [referência a PSD e ao presidente da Assembleia da República]”, would have been to “put no public emphasis on the decision” to “consider later”.
PS and PSD parliamentary sources assured DN that the issue of summoning Lucília Gago to parliament “will be considered, but it has not been raised: it has been dealt with” (…) “because there is no object of analysis”.
“Object of analysis” means the “little information that the PGR could provide at a parliamentary hearing due to the fact that the trial is under the secrecy of justice. What would you be talking about? The number of PJ- agents?” underlined a parliamentary source.
“It makes no sense to ask the PGR to come without the clarifications already requested by letter being answered,” says a Social Democratic parliamentary source.
And add that “Parliament is going on vacation on Friday”.
Yesterday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the “referee” and “fuse for all” – as he himself said – gave advice: You cannot “make the Portuguese people feel that there is some kind of war or struggle going on between what the political leaders, namely elected by the people, and those who work in terms of judicial enquiry”.
And the explanation is simple: “Citizens can lose confidence if they are convinced that there are institutions that go too far in their ways, or that there are institutions that seem to want to evade scrutiny or scrutiny, or get involved in in quarrels over the limits of their powers”.
Ventura came to say at the end of the leadership conference that his party had not “given consent to parliament to ask for any kind of clarification or question the prosecution”.
And he even spoke about what was “presented by the PSD parliamentary group or by the President of the Assembly of the Republic”.
Source: DN
