On Thursday, the cabinet responded to questions from the PSD about the SIS action in retrieving a computer from the Ministry of Infrastructure in the same way as to questions from this party, according to the minister of the presidency.
This position was expressed by Mariana Vieira da Silva at a press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, after she was confronted with allegations from the PSD about the way the government has chosen to respond to the questions it asked about the action of the Intelligence Service. and Security Service (SIS).
For the PSD, the Prime Minister, António Costa, “disrespected parliament and trampled on institutions” by not answering his questions about the SIS through the Assembly of the Republic.
However, the Presidency Minister countered that the government’s answers to the PSD’s questions were “given in the exact way they were received” by the executive.
“And so as not to give the impression that there are questions without answers, they were answered. In the same way that I am asked, I also answer that we had not received the questions formally,” he stressed. .
Still according to the portfolio holder of the Presidency, the theme of which refers to the intervention of the SIS in the recovery of a computer from the Ministry of Infrastructure “such an intense discussion in society, the questions were precisely received by the government and answered in the same way, with the answers to questions made public by the PSD made public.
At the beginning of this Thursday afternoon, the government informed the Lusa office that until then it had not formally received the application with 15 questions that the PSD had addressed to the Prime Minister about the SIS action.
According to this version, António Costa’s office was informed “through the press” of the questions he had asked about this case.
In other words, “the PSD will have publicly announced its questions well before they are formally presented to the Assembly of the Republic. Published on the government portal in the morning”.
Hours earlier, PSD parliamentary leader Joaquim Miranda Sarmento said that the Prime Minister’s responses to the SIS had not yet been received by the Assembly of the Republic, accusing António Costa of “disrespecting parliament” and “it trampling on institutions”.
“It is disrespectful to the Assembly of the Republic that the Prime Minister’s possible answers to the questions asked by the PSD yesterday [quarta-feira] asked about the performance of the SIS in the case of the laptop of the Secretary of State for Infrastructure which has not yet entered parliament but has been in the media since 6.30 amcriticized Joaquim Miranda Sarmento in statements to journalists at the end of the parliamentary group meeting.
The Social Democratic parliamentary leader declined to comment on the content of the comments released today by the Lusa agency, “while they are not official”.
At the beginning of the afternoon, on the parliament’s website – in the tab dedicated to “questions and requests” – neither the PSD question, announced on Wednesday, nor the respective answer had yet to appear.
SIS intervened in the recovery of a computer stolen from the Ministry of Infrastructure on April 26 by Frederico Pinheiro, former assistant to Minister João Galamba, who had been fired that night.
This case concerns complaints against Frederico Pinheiro for physical violence at the Ministry of Infrastructure, rejected by him, who complains that he was kidnapped in the building.
After the April 26 incidents, opposing versions appeared in public between elements of the Cabinet of the Minister of Infrastructure and Frederico Pinheiro, including about information to be provided by the government to the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the political protection of the TAP management.
Source: DN
