“I inform you that today I have submitted my resignation as Minister of Infrastructure to the Prime Minister,” said João Galamba, one of the defendants in the ‘Influencer’ operation, in a statement sent to newsrooms this Monday.
“I have submitted this request for dismissal after in-depth personal and family reflection, and because I believe that in my capacity as father and husband, this decision is the only possible one to guarantee my family the peace and discretion to which they are unequivocally entitled,” he explains. the minister resigned.
“First of all, I would like to make it clear that I submitted my resignation despite the fact that I understood that the political conditions I had to perform my duties had not been exhausted,” the detailed note reads.
João Galamba states that “as Secretary of State for Energy, in full accordance with the priorities of the European Union and the government programme, he has committed himself to the energy transition”, which he always defended as a challenge “that triggered a unique development. opportunities for the country’s technological, industrial and greater energy independence”.
It said it was committed to “ensuring conditions so that critical raw materials such as lithium and the establishment of the entire battery value chain in the country, including the lithium refinery, could bring new investments, technology and highly skilled jobs.”
The resigning minister is of the opinion that “this resignation does not imply taking over responsibilities with regard to what belongs to the sphere of Justice and should not be confused with that”.
He assures that, “as expected”, he is “fully available to clarify any doubts regarding the performance” of “government functions”, having already expressed in the ongoing judicial process his “total availability to cooperate in everything deemed necessary”, namely through their statements during the trial.
In the statement, João Galamba believes that “the action of a member of the government imposes the consideration of all current public interests and the obligation to make every effort to make them compatible or to maximize their realization when it is not possible to achieve its full realization. of all, and always with total obedience to the law”. “And that was without a doubt what I did during my work as a government official, looking for solutions so that all investment projects in the country related to my areas of work were realized and the economic achieved development that the Portuguese desire and deserve,” Galamba added.
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Source: DN
