Chega wrote to the President of the Republic this Wednesday asking him to clarify whether it was the Prime Minister who informed him about the intervention of the intelligence services in the recovery of the computer taken over from the Ministry of Infrastructure.
“We know very well that Your Excellency, but you are under no obligation to do so. For the sake of truth, and even to avoid the formation of a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the functioning of the SIS, we have come to make you aware of the importance of your contribution. regarding this matter,” the text reads.
In this document that the party announced on Wednesday to be addressed to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Chega points out that “it would be important to know whether it was the prime minister” who contacted him and “whether he described in detail in that contact the scheme of events of the SIS intervention” (Security Information Service) .
Speaking to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic, Chega’s president believed that the “web of lies” is “big enough for the President of the Republic not to clarify what’s going on.”
“It is the last request we make to the President of the Republic that he voluntarily decide, even outside the parliamentary mechanisms of the Commission of Inquiry, to send a message to Parliament explaining the contours of this intervention,” said André Ventura, expect a “positive response” from part of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
This appeal to the head of state comes one day after Chega’s request to the President of the Republic to testify in writing before the TAP Commission of Inquiry on the performance of the SIS in the April 26 events at the Ministry of Infrastructure.
Ventura lamented the ‘lead’, stating that the PS “has no interest in the truth being known”.
In this statement to journalists, Chega’s leader also regretted that the PSD had decided not to proceed with a parliamentary inquiry into the prime minister’s alleged interference in the bank. resist the government and reach the truth to the Portuguese”.
“If the PSD has this attitude, we will never be seen as an alternative and as a serious opposition bloc,” he defended.
André Ventura also criticized the PS for telling journalists to highlight the evolution of the Portuguese economy, as the socialists seem to be “obsessed” with the results and “ignoring the economic difficulties” of the Portuguese.
The president of the republic said this Wednesday that he had contacts with “a single official body” about the intervention of the SIS in the recovery of a computer taken over from the Ministry of Infrastructure, and found it easy to deduce who did it used to be.
The head of state reiterated that it was on April 29 – the day when the Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba, spoke publicly about the matter at a press conference – that he had “the first official contact” about the intervention of the SIS after the incidents in the night of April 26 at the Ministry of Infrastructure.
The President of the Republic referred to that “first official contact” on April 29 and shortly afterwards to the contact revealed by the Prime Minister between the two after the SIS crackdown, emphasizing that António Costa clarified in parliament that in that conversation “there no talk about the SIS”.
According to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, “Adding one and one together makes it possible to understand who was the one who contacted the President of the Republic on the 29th, therefore it is an easy conclusion to establish, since the Prime Minister took the initiative to speak in a contact with the President of the Republic”.
Source: DN
