The PS this Wednesday considered “sharing information” between deputies, the government and entities, as happened with TAP’s executive president, on the eve of the January hearing, accusing some parties of “creating affairs and affairs” . “.
After Christine Ourmières-Widener’s hearing on the TAP Commission of Inquiry, which lasted nearly seven hours on Tuesday, the PS Coordinator, Carlos Pereira, wanted to speak to journalists to mention that from this investigation “there is, in fact, nothing new except these cases created by the other parties, stressing that the company’s CEO was “angry and outraged” in parliament.
Questioned by journalists about a meeting held on the eve of the January hearing, in the economics committee, of the executive chairman of TAP and attended by members of the offices of various ministries and the parliamentary group of the PS, Carlos began Qualifying Pereira as “faits-divers” with this issue.
“These are preparatory meetings, others for sharing information that serve to ensure that the investigation is thorough, serious and accountable,” he said, denouncing any objectionable ethical conduct.
For the socialist, what happened at this meeting – made public by IL at the hearing – “it is what usually happens” as “information is being shared” between the government advisers, the parliamentary group and the entities “to understand what the issues are” being analysed.
“Sharing information is very normal, it would be abnormal not to share information. Just as information from the government is shared with other parties on request. There is nothing abnormal about this process,” he stressed.
When asked who came up with the initiative, Carlos Pereira started by replying that he didn’t know, as he had been “invited” to a “meeting via videoconference”.
He assured that he does not accept all meetings, and when confronted by journalists’ insistence on the origin of the invitation, he replied: “it came from the secretary”.
When asked “whose secretary”, Carlos Pereira clarified: “my secretary’s”, leaving it unclear where that invitation came from, as the deputy said he only replied to “anything he had to answer”.
Source: DN
