The president of the republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, acknowledged on Monday that the João Galamba case is a “very sensitive” matter of the state and must be treated “discretely”. In this sense “it is not for him to say” when he would speak to António Costa on the matter of the resignation of the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure.
“With certain particularly sensitive subjects, their treatment is not in the public square, it is not in the spotlight of the media. They are treated, they are treated until they are seen to have been treated”began by responding to journalists Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa when asked if he had already spoken to the Prime Minister about the controversy that has marked the past few days.
“Issues that concern important economic or political or political and economic dossiers, interventions are discreet. Therefore, here, since it is a sensitive issue, of national importance, the treatment must be discreet”he claimed.
According to the President of the Republic, following the conversation with the Prime Minister, it is not for him “to say such a day, such a time under these circumstances”.
On Saturday, the President of the Republic in Ovibeja refused to comment on the whole matter of the dismissal of Frederico Pinheiro, assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba, claiming that the first person he would talk to if he had full information the matter would lie with the prime minister.
On the same day, the Minister of Infrastructure stated at a press conference that he had reported to the Deputy Secretary of State to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice about the theft of the computer by the acquitted deputy, after being informed that he should serve the SIS and the inform PJ.
At the press conference in which João Galamba tried to clarify the controversy that arose on Friday with his acquitted deputy, Fernando Pinheiro, the minister was asked by journalists if he had called the Prime Minister to ask for the intervention of the Information and Security Service (ZUS) .
“I was not at the ministry when the attack on my chief of staff and my deputy took place. I immediately called the prime minister. The minister, I think, was driving and did not answer. Minister to whom I reported this fact. I think he stood next to the Prime Minister for Administrative Modernization alongside the Secretary of State,” he said.
According to the minister, he was told in this telephone conversation that he “should speak to the Minister of Justice”, which he guarantees that he did.
“I reported the fact and they told me that my office should report these facts to those two authorities, which we did,” he explained, referring to the SIS and the judicial police.
In the words of João Galamba, after attacking two people in his office, Frederico Pinheiro “took a computer” that was state property.
Source: DN
