The president of the republic found the delay in establishing the Transparency Entity this Friday incomprehensible and warned that it “could create the feeling” that “it is not a priority”.
“It’s incomprehensible, it’s incomprehensible,” replied Marcelo Rebelo de Sousain Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, on the margins of the closing ceremony of the sixteenth annual meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council, when asked about the delay in taking office of that entity, established in 2009.
The head of state left a warning: “I understand that at one point it was assumed that that entity was fundamental, with the means to be able to intervene and several years went by without the entity being created, the feeling that in some Portuguese, I hope that doesn’t exist is that transparency is not a priority in Portuguese society after all,” he warned.
Faced with the refusal of some political parties to immediately review the law on incompatibilities passed in 2019, the president of the republic said only that the parliament knows his position and that it is not for him to comment on decisions of that body.
“I’m not going to comment on what parliament decides. You know my position. My position is that the law, I’m not saying it, it’s the Attorney General’s Office that, in one opinion, said that, like the law raises doubts and leaves shadow margins,” he pointed out.
For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: “If there are parties who understand that this is not a reason to introduce legislation at the moment, they prefer a longer weighting, that is a choice of those parties, and people learn the different positions in the Assembly of the Republic”.
The president of the republic again recalled that when the law was passed “it didn’t deserve any proposal to change sides, it was almost unanimously voted, but the CDS just didn’t vote on it,” but he was already had doubts. time.
“I thought I should move on, but I knew there was an overwhelming majority in favor of the law and I would pass it that way at any time,” he explained.
Source: DN
