Speaking to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic, the parliamentary leader of the BE pointed out that a hearing of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic (CFSIRP) was scheduled for this Wednesday in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees and that some parties asked to pay attention to recent developments at the Ministry of Infrastructure.
The PS said it would not accept that the Supervisory Board would comment on matters related to the events of the past few days at today’s hearing. It said it was still unable to know what had happened. happened,” criticized Pedro Filipe Soares.
And he pointed out that “after all, minutes after the meeting, there is already an opinion from the Supervisory Board itself saying that everything went well, everything within the legality”, regretting that the deputies have not had the opportunity to confront go members.
“In fact, there is apparently an instrumentalization of the communication of the Supervisory Board of the secret services in order to condition the action of parliament”, the BE deputy insisted.
“If we had any doubts about the distance or lack thereof between the Prime Minister, the Government and the information systems, if we had any doubts about the actions of the SIS in this matter in connection with the events at the Ministry of Infrastructure, now these questions are even closer doubts because apparently there was a conditioning of the parliament’s action, so in the management of public opinion there was a purging of the action of the SIS and the relationship of the government “, defended he .
The BE parliamentary leader believed that “this is unacceptable” and asked that the CFSIRP hearing take place soon to ensure that “not only the SIS, which was the initial suspicion, is instrumentalised, but also from the Council of supervision itself”. , which was chaired by a former minister of the PS government”.
“This information management is a huge violation of what we consider legality and the government must quickly stop being a problem and become part of the solution,” emphasized Pedro Filipe Soares, who also defended that the “PS in the Assembly of the Republic must stop being a sounding board for the problems of the government and adopt a supervisory attitude, as is the duty of socialist deputies and deputies.
As for the communiqué released by CFSIRP – in which he refers that the elements he has collected “do not allow to conclude” that there was an illegal action by the SIS in recovering the laptop of the former assistant minister João Galamba — the blogger opined that “it’s a mistake, so it needs to be cleared up.”
“It seems to us that opinion is trying to steer public opinion and, coincidentally made public minutes after the 1st committee said we couldn’t ask questions about this because they weren’t willing to answer us, it gives a clear idea that there is again talk of is of information conditioning, there is a media steering of something that should be higher than just the public interest of the government or some minister,” he charged.
The group leader of BE also believed that there is “an escalation in relations between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister” and that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and António Costa are “actually sides of the same coin”.
The blockista deputy pointed out that “the two were good for each other in the past, they are also responsible for the current situation” and accused the head of state and government of managing “this file not to bring the results closer together.” to take”. solutions, but rather to exacerbate the problems”.
“Adults are needed in the room and I don’t know if they are currently in key positions in the country,” he defended.
Source: DN
