João Galamba reiterated this Wednesday that he had not lied to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to the management of TAP. “Anyone who has carefully listened to my hearing and that of the Prime Minister’s Deputy Secretary of State [António Mendonça Mendes] realizes that.”
The Minister of Infrastructure says the PSD’s request to the Public Prosecution Service to assess whether there has been a crime of false statement committed by Galamba at the CPI is “an act of desperation”. “The PSD can say what they want, which is normal, they don’t have much to say about anything else. I think it’s an act of desperation on the part of the opposition, because it has nothing to say about the country and focuses on minor incidents.” It is a sign of a lack of alternative,” he concluded.
The governor says he is not afraid of what might be said at the CPI, hoping “the hearings go well,” nor of the ramifications of the commission’s report. “The CPI is about the management of TAP and, as the Prime Minister has said several times, a big part of the purpose of this committee is the management of TAP in a period prior to my passage through the Ministry of Infrastructure,” he stressed.
Asked to comment on the words of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who referred to “dead branches” in his June 10 speech, the official said he did not feel like a dead branch in the government, nor was he weakened by the boos he heard in Peso da Regua. “That was what was missing most. I heard hooting and applause. Anyone who has been in public life for several years should know how to handle criticism and praise,” he stressed.
A week ago, the Prime Minister’s deputy secretary of state confirmed that he had spoken with Minister João Galamba on the night of April 26, but rejected any causal link between that call and the report to the information services of the computer from the Ministry of Infrastructure.
At the same hearing, Mendonça Mendes assured Tuesday that “there was no call” for the information services to act in the case of the computer taken over from the Ministry of Infrastructure, emphasizing that “a report does not mean a request to act “.
Following these statements, the Secretary General of the PSD challenged the Prime Minister to exonerate the Minister of Infrastructure “until the end of the day” as it was proven that João Galamba had lied to parliament and the country after António Mendonça Mendes to have heard.
Source: DN
