Chega will propose to set up a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the implementation of the ‘secret’ since 2015, to find out whether there has been any ‘improper use’ of the Security Information Service (SIS) in the past, calling for the intervention of the President of the Republic.
“We have just informed the Liberal Initiative that we will follow up on their initiative, but we will present today a new initiative for a commission of inquiry, expanding the scope of this request, so that we can review the history of actions and guarantee to the Portuguese that there is no misuse of information services, neither now nor in the past”André Ventura indicated.
The announcement was made by the leader of Chega, in statements to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic, after the director of SIS, Adélio Neiva da Cruz, and the secretary general of the Information System of the Republic were heard in parliament on Thursday. Portuguesa (SIRP), Ambassador Maria da Graça Mira Gomes, to clarify the circumstances under which SIS was contacted on April 26 and took action to recover a computer in the possession of Frederico Pinheiro, former Ministry deputy of Infrastructure, who had been dismissed that day by Minister João Galamba.
Chega’s deputy claimed that, with regard to the recovery of the computer of the former assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure, “the immediate intuition and reaction of government officials was not to resort to the PJ or PSP, but to the information service noting that “This raises suspicions that other cases may have occurred in the past.”
For this reason, he defended that “a parliamentary committee of inquiry into this achievement” by the SIS is more than ever justified, “which has an even wider scope, to understand whether there were similar situations in the past”.
When asked about the period that Chega would like to see analysed, André Ventura opined that he will propose that this commission of inquiry goes back “eventually to 2015 and the beginning of the contraceptive government”.
The leader of Chega also called on the President of the Republic, “given the seriousness of the confusion and lies, since it is at stake at the most sensitive level, the regular functioning of the institutions”, to meet with the SIRP and the SIS, to “understand what has happened and remind the government that, having committed an irregularity, it should not do it again, and of the seriousness that the inappropriate use of intelligence services can represent”.
At the beginning of the month, the liberal initiative proposed the creation of a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the performance of the SIS, with the aim of “finding out the political, legal or other performance responsibilities” of this service in the recovery of the computer used by Frederic Pinheiro.
The Liberals also want parliament to investigate “the current government’s practice towards intelligence agencies, namely whether it is customary or customary to issue directives, orders, directions or directives so that they carry out their own and exclusive acts of the entities with police duties”.
Source: DN
