BE bank leader Pedro Filipe Soares assured this Monday that the blocking parliamentary group “does not hold or hold preparatory meetings” for auditions involving members of the government or elements outside the executive branch.
This publication by Pedro Filipe Soares on Twitter comes after a long publication by the President of the PS, Carlos César, on the social network Facebook, in which he described the opposition’s “skillful half-truth and some of its amanuens and a generalized exercise of hypocrisy at the meeting on the eve of TAP’s CEO hearing in January, in which PS deputy Carlos Pereira and elements of the ministries overseeing the airline participated.
“The parliamentary group of the Left Bloc does not hold preparatory meetings for parliamentary hearings with members of the government or with people outside the government,” Pedro Filipe Soares assured.
The parliamentary group of the Left Bloc does not and has not held preparatory meetings for parliamentary hearings with members of the government or with persons outside the government.
– Pedro Filipe Soares (@PedroFgSoares) April 10, 2023
Precisely about this meeting, which was known during the hearing in the TAP Commission of Inquiry with the Executive President of TAP, Christine Ourmières-Widener, today the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, defended that personalities with a more technical profile , such as the CEO of TAP, are not allowed to participate in meetings of a political nature.
“The parliamentary groups that support a government and that government can and must hold periodic meetings, at the appropriate political level, but these meetings should not involve other personalities who, because of their more technical profile or the responsibilities they have – either in the head of the administration directly of the state, either the head of the indirect administration or the head of the state’s business community,” said the President of the Assembly of the Republic, who took part in the ceremonies of the Tábua Municipal Day , in the Coimbra district.
For Augusto Santos Silva, personalities with a more technical profile, such as Christine Ourmières-Widener, “are not allowed to participate in meetings of a more political nature”.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Christine Ourmières-Widener identified the PS deputy and coordinator in the Commission of Inquiry Carlos Pereira as one of those present at that January 17 meeting.
At the end of the audition, Carlos Pereira told journalists that it was a natural procedure to “share information”.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Infrastructure said it was informed on January 16 that TAP was interested in participating in the next day’s meeting with the PS group and that João Galamba “had no objection”.
Source: DN
