Last Tuesday, PS and PCP rejected Chega’s request for a written testimony from the President of the Republic to the TAP Commission of Inquiry on the SIS’s conduct in the April 26 events at the Ministry of Infrastructure.
At the start of today’s meeting of the TAP Commission of Inquiry, the deputies rejected this request, with the PS and PCP voting against, the PSD and BE abstaining and voting for only Chega and IL.
The purpose of the request was for the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, to testify “in writing” about the performance of the Security Information Service (SIS) in recovering the computer of Frederico Pinheiro, a former deputy of the minister João Galamba.
During the intervention period, only the PS and Chega took the floor, with the socialist coordinator, Bruno Aragão, once again justifying this dissenting vote with the fact that the request fell outside the committee of inquiry.
Chega’s deputy Filipe Melo again accused the PS of using the “steamroller” of the absolute majority, reiterating the importance of this testimony from the head of state.
At the same meeting of the TAP Commission of Inquiry, the PCP’s request for Social Security documentation to send “information about payments made in the years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 from income from employment at TAP or at Atlantic Gateway of the administrators of TAP SA and TAP SGPS”.
This weekend, the chairman of Chega, André Ventura, announced this request.
“While I know how sensitive this can be, I would like to inform you that today Chega has sent a letter to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to TAP asking the President of the Republic to make a written statement to the Commission of Inquiry stating that explained what the Prime Minister told him who interfered with the use of the SIS and how this interference happened,” said André Ventura, speaking at the party’s National Council, which took place in Vila Real.
The events of April 26 are related to Frederico Pinheiro, former assistant to Minister João Galamba, and involve allegations against the former deputy of physical violence at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the alleged theft of a laptop computer, after it was dismissed, a case that is being investigated by the Public Prosecution Service.
During last week’s debate in the Assembly of the Republic, the Prime Minister said that he did not see any form of illegality in the SIS’s action to recover former Deputy Minister João Galamba’s computer, and to ensure that no government member gave any instruction or instruction. guidance for the action of that service.
António Costa also believed, to the deputies, that the SIS was acting “in an adequate, proportionate and not going beyond its powers”.
Source: DN
