The PSD chairman opined on Tuesday that the Prime Minister’s under-secretary of state’s silence on the SIS “increased doubts” and stated that “it seems that answers are being prepared so that everything fits”.
“I believe the Deputy Secretary of State [do primeiro-ministro, António Mendonça Mendes]regardless of what he says in parliament, he could already have contributed to the clarification, but it only increased the doubts, it seems that answers are being prepared so that everything fits,” Luís Montenegro said.
The Social Democratic leader spoke to journalists after meeting for about an hour with a delegation from the Associação do Alojamento Local in Portugal (ALEP), at the party’s headquarters in Lisbon.
“What I can see as an observer is that the more the stories try to fit together, the more they fall apart and appear in the public space in a contradictory way,” he emphasized.
The Prime Minister’s assistant secretary of state – who may have to go to parliament for a hearing on the subject – has declined to answer questions about SIS’s role in recovering the computer of a former aide to the infrastructure minister, after João Galamba stated at his hearing in the TAP Commission of Inquiry this month that the person who told him on April 26 to contact the information services was Mendonça Mendes.
Montenegro also said that the request announced by the PSD president in an interview with RTP to the Prime Minister, António Costa, to explain the role of the intelligence services in this matter was finalized, and listed some of the issues that will to appear. in the document.
“Who actually fueled the zeal of the intelligence services; who within the government established this interaction and followed the development of this operation; why did not the PSP and the PJ themselves take the initiative to call the services?” [de informações]if there was a need and legal framework for this call,” he said.
The Social Democratic president still wants to know “once and for all what was said to the intelligence services”.
“Was it said that there was a robbery in the Ministry of Infrastructure or not? The Prime Minister and the Minister of Infrastructure, when they spoke to the country, did they know the framework of that situation or not?” he wondered.
For Luís Montenegro “the country cannot coexist with services operating in a highly sensitive area, which means secrecy, if it is not known to be done within the legality and without any abuse given the legal terms and conditions”.
Source: DN
