The PSD said on Tuesday that the Minister of Health “violated the law of exclusivity regime” and deemed it “unacceptable” that it does not “correct the error immediately”stressing that the ruler “knew the legislation perfectly” before taking office.
“(…) It is very strange that the new health minister did not know that he could not accept his appointment to these government positions, while maintaining himself as a managing partner of a health company,” he told Lusa the social democratic deputy Rui Cristina.
According to the PSD coordinator of the Health Commission, Manuel Pizarro “violates the law of the exclusivity regime”.
“Admittedly the mistake, it is unacceptable that the situation is not immediately corrected and this is the example of the impunity that the socialist power feels in the country”accused Rui Cristina and stressed that “the whole situation needs to be clarified”.
For the PSD, the law must be applied and if Manuel Pizarro breaks the law, the consequences must be “those provided for in the law”.
“The minister, who knows the law of exclusivity, (…) should have stopped being a general partner before taking office. (…) He should not have let the situation get to this point. That what is what happened would not happen, because he knew perfectly what the laws of the exclusivity regime were,” he repeated.
“We will not fail to act accordingly so that we can focus on the health of the Portuguese and on the serious problems of the SNS [Serviço Nacional de Saúde]he added.
On Monday, health minister Manuel Pizarro released a statement in response to a TVI report saying he was “aware” of the incompatibility of his position in government with the management of a health-related company, stressed that already started “the process of solving it”.
Enough wants resignation
Chega reported this Tuesday to the Constitutional Court (TC) that the Minister of Health was a managing partner of a companygiven that this is an “absolute incompatibility” that “does not exempt the law”, and expects the resignation of Manuel Pizarro.
“Chega today filed a complaint, a participation, in the prosecution with the TC and the TC to continue the usual investigative process in these types of cases leading to the forced dismissal, say, judicial, of the position of Minister of Health,” said the party chairman.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference at the General Assembly of the Republic, André Ventura took the view that “the inauguration requires the removal of paid or unpaid positions in companies, and that has not happened”, speaking of “absolute incompatibility” that “the law makes no exception”.
“The minister came to say that the company is currently being dissolved and that it was not because of a pledge, but the minister had other legal instruments to distance himself from the company.”defended.
On Monday, health minister Manuel Pizarro released a statement in response to a TVI report saying he was “aware” of the incompatibility of his position in government with the management of a health-related company, stressed that already started “the process of solving it”.
Block speaks of ‘serious political mistake’
The parliamentary leader of the Left Bloc ruled today that the health minister committed a “serious political mistake”, but referred the decision on a possible dismissal of the ruler to the Public Prosecution Service and the Constitutional Court.
“The Minister has placed himself in a circumstance that shows a huge political error, a certain arrogance and a swagger that would not be expected from those arriving at a government that has been in office for several years. (…) About the consequences of this, the withdrawal, parliamentary groups cannot act in this context because there is a law, and the law says that it is the Public Prosecution Service, the Constitutional Court, that assesses the consequences of non-compliance in this context,” underlines Pedro Filipe Soares.
The parliamentary leader of the Left Bloc said the BE “waits with all serenity that the Public Prosecution Service and the Constitutional Court have an opinion on the matter and on the timing for the correction of this reality”.
“We will not interfere with the Constitutional Court, with the Public Prosecutor’s Office,” he assured.
In political terms, however, Pedro Filipe Soares criticized the executive and Manuel Pizarro, as “the minister shows an arrogance in the execution of his mandate that is matched only by members of the government, but is not understood by society”.
For the parliamentary leader of BE, the case involving Manuel Pizarro is “a new mistake, a new government matter”, causing “again” talk of “a matter and not a health policy”.
“It is again the arrogance of an absolute majority of the PS government, which puts itself at the forefront of matters that should define and guide public issues,” he said.
Pedro Filipe Soares attributed responsibility for this situation to the Prime Minister, António Costa, who “came to the government and promised a code of conduct, a new way to make the country transparent in the democratic space”, but at a time when he has “an absolute majority to be able to do that has been reduced to problems of dialogue” and the “proliferation of these ‘cases and cases'”.
Asked about Chega’s participation in the Constitutional Court in the Manuel Pizarro case, Pedro Filipe Soares said he thought it was “more an act of political propaganda than concrete content”.
Source: DN
