“The instability in the Commission of Inquiry in particular is shown by the change, I confess, of the chairmanship of the Commission, difficult to explain, in a process of victimization that genuinely does not favor the progress of the works,” said Luís Montenegro , before meeting young people at the Polytechnic University of Leiria to discuss housing.
Faced with the words of socialist Eurico Brilhante Dias, who today accused PSD deputy Paulo Moniz of attacking the honor and character of the chairman of the TAP Commission of Inquiry, socialist Jorge Seguro Sanches, the social democratic leader, reaffirmed: ” it’s that victimization process, which is an excuse for bad pay, by making the audition calendar unfeasible, by hindering access to information, some of which was even decided in committee itself”.
“What seems increasingly certain to me is that where the Socialist Party joins, it creates instability. Today we have instability within the government that has been building up for months and months. In Portugal, we have institutional instability in relations between the government and its president of the republic. and now we also have instability in Parliament, because the PS creates this instability,” he added.
For Luís Montenegro, the PS is doing “something that is the opposite of what the party’s secretary general says”, António Costa, who stated that “the truth must be discovered and established, no matter who it hurts”.
“It seems that as the pain approaches government territory, the search for the truth has obstacles. There are obstacles in the documents that are being made available, in the hearings, this instability and this cloud to see if it can distract the Portuguese of what is happening in the committee,” he stated.
Socialist deputy António Lacerda Sales will assume the chairmanship of the Commission of Inquiry into TAP, following the resignation of Jorge Seguro Sanches, the parliamentary group of the PS announced today.
Montenegro also commented on statements by Minister João Galamba, who said today that he would add nothing to the statements he had already made about the dismissal process of his deputy Frederico Pinheiro.
“I myself have already had the opportunity to question both Prime Minister and Minister João Galamba about what happened last week, because the minister in question has tendered his resignation,” he stressed.
Luís Montenegro recalled that João Galamba explained his resignation “in writing”, where “arguments were made such as the need for institutional calm, the preservation of the dignity of himself and even his family”.
“If these arguments were presented truthfully, if they weren’t fictionalized, I don’t see why the minister would be inconsistent and ask to leave. Not only by not accepting the resignation, but by this arm wrestling match with the president of the Republic, breaking what has always been a relationship of cooperation and institutional cooperation that has taken place in recent years,” he concluded.
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Source: DN
