The PSD/Gaia on Tuesday believed that Operation Babel, which led to the arrest and protective custody of Gaia’s deputy mayor, will cause “irreparable damage” to the reputation of this municipality, and asked that the “appropriate political consequences.
“The facts charged by the Public Prosecution Service are very serious and will certainly cause irreparable damage to the image of the municipality and a serious blow to the reputation of the city council, which the PSD deeply regrets,” the party said today in sent a statement to the essays.
In the opinion of the PSD Council of Vila Nova de Gaia, regardless of the criminal responsibility that can be determined in the context of Operation Babel, carried out by the Judicial Police (PJ), in the current circumstances what matters is the determination of the responsibility policy of the holders of the offices for which they have been elected.
“Like what should happen in the government of the republic, political responsibility must also be taken for the actions of municipal political agents, because guilt cannot always die alone,” he stressed.
In the document, the PSD stressed that while there is still no conviction or accusation, the elected officials cannot and should not be “constantly subject to suspicion or spend time in the media for explanations without ever drawing the right conclusions from the facts.” . implications”.
According to the council of Gaia of the PSD, the Portuguese in general, and Gaienses in particular, have the right to look with confidence at the institutions that govern them and decide their daily lives, “absolutely cleansed of suspicion, fear or withdrawal”.
However, he added: “Citizens unfortunately face a quagmire of public degradation and the discrediting of politicians and political agents”.
According to the PSD, the prime minister, ministers, mayors, councilors or office bearers are currently unable to assume their political responsibilities.
The deputy mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, Patrocínio Azevedo, has been taken into pre-trial detention as part of Operation Babel, the Porto criminal court announced on Friday.
This main Operation Babel process focuses on “the violation of norms and instruction of urban permit processes in favor of promoters associated with high-density and size projects, involving real estate interests in the order of EUR 300 million, through of offering and accepting monetary compensation”.
Despite his detention, Patrocínio Azevedo has not resigned his mandate.
The mayor of Gaia, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, announced on Monday at a meeting of the college of mayor and aldermen that the vice presidency will now be assumed by alderman Marina Mendes, responsible for the areas of education and social action.
However, the PSD hopes that given the circumstances, namely preventive detention, Patrocínio Azevedo will resign his mandate “in the name of political responsibility”.
“Even knowing that the mandate is personal, in case it doesn’t happen [renuncia ao mandato]which is only admitted as a mere hypothesis, then the mayor and the PS will have to draw the necessary political conclusions and act accordingly,” he concludes.
Source: DN
