Chega asked the Transparency Commission for an opinion on the permanence of Socialist deputy Carlos Pereira in the parliamentary committee of inquiry into TAP, citing a possible conflict of interest.
“During the hearing of former TAP CEO Christine Ourmières-Widener, it was made public that Deputy Carlos Pereira participated in a meeting that took place on January 17, the very eve of the then-CEO’s departure to parliament for clarification. about the dismissal of former administrator Alexandra Reis,” the party writes in the application released this Thursday.
In the document, the party underlines that the PS deputy said when questioned that a committee of inquiry was at stake for TAP “and not the activity of the deputies”.
Chega president André Ventura defended on Wednesday that the prime minister, António Costa, and the PS parliamentary leader, Eurico Brilhante Dias, should explain the January meeting between socialist deputies, government advisers and TAP’s CEO.
Speaking to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic, André Ventura said that there are “declarations that both Eurico Brilhante Dias and António Costa have a duty to give to the country”. the testimony ” by Christine Ourmières-Widener in parliament.
Chega’s leader believed that Socialist deputy Carlos Pereira, coordinator of the PS in the parliamentary committee of inquiry and found to be the executive chairman of TAP present at that meeting, is “unable to continue” to participate to be taken from this committee.
The PSD also announced its intention to ask the Transparency Committee to rule on the presence of the Socialist Coordinator on the TAP Commission of Inquiry at a meeting with the company’s executive chairman on the eve of the parliamentary hearing in January.
During the interrogation of Alexandra Reis, which took place in parliament on Wednesday, the PSD coordinator, Paulo Moniz, announced that he had submitted a request regarding the January 17 meeting, the day before Christine Ourmières-Widener left for Economics, Public Works , the Spatial Planning and Housing Commission and in which elements of the ministries were present and, as far as known, the PS deputy Carlos Pereira.
The former TAP administrator Alexandra Reis assumed that the amount of the initially proposed compensation to leave the company (1.4 million euros) was “very expressive”, but underlined that the responsibilities were too, referring to the fact that there was no “legitimate cause”.
The former administrator eventually left the company with half a million euros in damages, in a process that parliament is now trying to clarify.
Source: DN
