The CDS-PP said this Wednesday that the government has shown signs of using the information and security services outside its powers, for political purposes, and has again called for the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic.
In a statement signed by the leader of the party, Nuno Melo, sent to DN, the centrists condemn that “the SIS intervenes by excessively, without scrutiny, exercising legal powers and exceeding constitutional limits. A secret police is not a political police. The normal functioning of the rule of law is dangerously at stake.”
A conclusion, for the party, reinforced by statements made in parliament by Frederico Pinheiro, former adviser to the Minister of Infrastructure, who described in TAP’s parliamentary committee “blackouts, threats, insults, unauthorized use of secret services [e] staging of the answers to be provided to the CPI”.
For the CDS, this hearing “reinforces the certainty that the maintenance of João Galamba at the head of the Ministry of Infrastructure with every day undermines the credibility of the state, aggravating the already irreparable damage. No personal ambition can make the respective stay allow under guardianship”.
But for Nuno Melo, the Prime Minister’s action in this matter is also questioned: “It cannot be that, since the SIS is headed by the Secretary General of the SIRP, who depends on the Prime Minister with the status of Secretary of State António Costa was unaware of the actions regarding the recovery of government computer equipment, which was in the possession of a minister’s deputy, all elected by the head of government. a government deputy to justify the action of the SIS, the representative of these secret services confirms the opposite, and everything remains the same.”
For the CDS, “the prime minister must give the explanations that democracy demands.”
In this scenario, Nuno Melo “repeats the request for the dissolution of parliament that the CDS-PP has made to the President of the Republic since December”.
Source: DN
