The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, said on Thursday that the leaking of information about meetings of the Council of State is an insult to this consultative body and to the council members, and declined to comment further.
In statements on the sidelines of his participation in the Socialist Academy, an initiative of the PS that runs until Sunday, in Évora, Santos Silva was asked whether he considers the leaking of information about meetings of the Council of State serious.
“Naturally.
For the president of parliament, it is “a matter of honor that members of bodies as important as the Council of State know how to respect the rules”.
“And I know these rules and I respect them and that is why I have no say in what happens in the Council of State,” he said.
In Guimarães on Wednesday, Prime Minister António Costa defended that “whoever tells lies” about what is happening in the Council of State “does the country a disservice” and refused to confirm whether he was silent at the meeting. of that body.
Later, the President of the Republic stated that the Prime Minister’s choice not to comment in the Council of State on the opinions expressed by the councilors at the July meeting was “not due to any quarrel” between the two.
Source: DN
