Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa admitted on Monday that four years ago he received an email from his son, Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, about the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins treated at Santa Maria Hospital, and that from there a altercation started. emails between the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic, your son and the hospital department.
“I tried at the Presidency of the Republic to find out as completely as possible whether any intervention had taken place. Ten days ago, the PGR opened an investigation against unknown people over this issue. I can say that four years ago. ago, in an intense period of my personal and political life, between October 21 and October 31, 2019, which coincided with the formation of a new government and its inauguration and an operation of which I was the target, my son sent me an email email saying: that a group of family friends of the twins tried to get them treated in Portugal, to find out if treatment in Santa Maria was possible,” he began to say, revealing that from then on there were contacts between Casa Civil , his son and Santa Maria Hospital, highlighting who did not remember these events.
However, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa denied that the intervention of the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic had accelerated the treatment, emphasizing that the Hospital de Santa Maria has always had a “clear position” that the priority was patients living in Portugal .
“I certainly have the conditions to maintain this position,” he emphasized, assuming that the Presidency of the Republic would have interfered in the same way if there had not been a case close to the Rebelo de Sousa family. “I looked at him [meu filho] like every citizen who wanted to provide support. I treated him like this. I get identical cases,” he explained.
“I will not allow people to call my name. I was the one who was chosen,” he added.
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Source: DN
