The president of Chega on Tuesday believed that explanations still need to be provided by the President of the Republic over the treatment of two Portuguese-Brazilian children in Lisbon and admitted to proposing a parliamentary commission of inquiry.
“The president must clarify. I don’t know whether he will be called by the Public Prosecution Service or not, but he must clarify.”defended André Ventura, who addressed journalists before the start of Chega’s parliamentary days, which will take place between Tuesday and Wednesday at a hotel in Matosinhos (Porto district).
According to him, the requested clarifications have not been provided.
‘It remains unclear […] Why have some documents disappeared?he said.
The Chega leader pointed out that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “could not have done this alone”, and questioned the government’s involvement. “because it was certainly not the President of the Republic who called the board of directors of Santa Maria or called the doctors who were going to treat these children”.
Ventura opined that he also wants to see clarification “What kind of intervention has the President had with the Secretary of State at the hospital to say that this matter has been contacted by the Secretary of State and his Secretary of State” and how the case ended up in the hospital and the treatment was decided, reiterating that Marta Temido and Lacerda Sales must clarify in parliament.
“If these clarifications are not provided – and waiting for the Public Prosecution Service to make progress in the process it has opened – Parliament will have no choice but to open a parliamentary commission of inquiry into this case.”he defended.
A little later, at the opening of the parliamentary days, the president of Chega indicated that “if necessary” the party will resort to the “most serious instrument in parliament, the parliamentary investigation committee”.
“Because it seems to us that, regardless of the persons involved, the manner and form of action are extremely serious for the republican ethics and the morality by which the state should be bound”he defended.
Regarding Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s continuation in office, the Chega president argued that “he will judge whether he meets these conditions or not”, but stated that, given the current political situation, a new crisis should not arise under penalty of “the country ending up in a complete state of political anemia”.
“I think that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is currently the only point of balance in the democratic system that we have, when the government is in crisis and the autonomous regions are in crisis. If Marcelo goes into a spiral and also loses his political authority, we fell into complete disarray”he emphasized.
In statements to journalists, André Ventura opined that “it is fantastic” that “two children have been saved” and “that Portugal has done it”, but “very bad” that there has been “discriminatory treatment”.
“If today we have so many people who have difficulty accessing the National Health Service, I think it is not positive that there are people who, because of their economic or political condition or proximity to the President or the son of the president, have access to these treatments. while so many Portuguese don’t have it”he claimed.
The president of Chega already criticized this during the opening of the days “People who come from abroad, who acquire nationality in 14 days, and without being registered with the National Health Service, benefit from treatment worth more than four million euros, while others do not receive it”and classifies it as the country that has reached the bottom.
André Ventura also said at the time that the fight against corruption will be “the party’s biggest goal”.
Source: DN
