There are already five possible commissions of inquiry with which Chega has made progress in this legislature, and the 4th was dismissed this Friday with accusations against André Ventura’s party of “triggering” this parliamentary tool. This time, containment of the covid-19 pandemic was at stake.
But another one is scheduled in Parliament for debate and vote, proposed by Chega, which already has the same pre-announced goal. This is a possible commission of parliamentary inquiry to investigate the possible interference of the Prime Minister with the autonomy of Banco de Portugal to protect the daughter of the President of Angola.
A committee in which André Ventura wanted to involve the PSD – which could have made it possible with their signatures, but did not want to – and which stems from the controversy surrounding Luís Rosa’s book O Gouverneur, in which the former governor of the Bank of Portugal accuses Carlos Costa António Costa of trying to interfere in the removal of Isabel dos Santos from the EuroBIC bank.
But Chega also tried, unsuccessfully, a parliamentary inquiry into the performance of the Portuguese state in establishing partnerships with associations of Russian citizens in the reception and integration of Ukrainian citizens in Portugal following the controversy over the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Setúbal by an association of a few Russians.
André Ventura’s bank also went ahead with the proposal for a possible parliamentary committee of inquiry to assess the process of restructuring the Integrated System of Emergency and Security Networks in Portugal (SIRESP), from the fires of 2017 to the present, but which eventually retreated.
And yet another on the credibility of the annual internal security reports that the government presents to the Assembly of the Republic.
“everyday”
This Friday, during the debate in the Assembly of the Republic on Chega’s proposal to establish a possible parliamentary commission of inquiry to assess the management of the covid-19 pandemic, the party leader defended the “need for the Portuguese parliament to an in-depth investigation into how this process was conducted”.
“From January 2021 to March 2022, we were faced with 22,134 contracts for a total amount of 2 billion euros. Of all these contracts, 88.5% had no supervision or control by the Court of Audit,” he stressed.
André Pinotes Batista, from the PS, said that his bank “will vote against this initiative to a reasonable degree, its adoption will only contribute to undermining the credibility of the parliamentary institutions” and stressed that the government “will spent money needed to save lives”.
The Socialist deputy accused Chega of “mere trivialization of the parliamentary inquiry”. “We know that Chega will again wave appliances, exclaim shame, just like his routine appanage […]🇧🇷 Claiming shame is when we have to endure the humanistic hardship of a deputy who claims that a woman who became pregnant as a result of rape should be forced to manage her to the end, shame is witnessing the blatant cruelty from a mayor who claims that homosexuality is a whim that can be tolerated as long as he is contained within four walls,” he criticized.
“Stop talking about homosexuality and abortion and respond to corruption, that’s what people want to know,” replied André Ventura.
With Lusa
Source: DN
