On Wednesday, the PS and the PCP rejected the PSD’s request to send the minutes of the hearing of Minister João Galamba in the TAP investigative committee to the Attorney General’s Office.
In the period before voting on the requests before the hearing of former Secretary of State Hugo Mendes, this request from the PSD “that a certificate be taken from the minutes of the hearing of Minister João Galamba, as well as sending it to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), with a view to the establishment of the competent investigation of a criminal nature” was rendered impracticable with the votes against of socialists and communists and the votes in favor of PSD, Chega, IL and BE.
At the end of the vote, the PSD, through its coordinator Paulo Moniz, announced that since the Commission of Inquiry will not send it, the party will try to send these minutes, in what it considered to be fulfilling obligations.
Also failed Chega’s three requests, including a new hearing of João Galamba and also the former president of Parpública Pedro Ferreira Pinto, as well as the hearing of the Director General of the National Security Office, António Gameiro Marques.
The three PCP requests were all unanimously approved.
Last week, the PSD announced it would ask the Public Prosecutor’s Office to assess whether there was a crime of misrepresentation by Infrastructure Minister João Galamba in the Commission of Inquiry into TAP, pointing to a “gross discrepancy” with declarations of other rulers.
Paulo Moniz then said that “the versions of the Prime Minister, António Costa, his Deputy Secretary of State, António Mendonça Mendes, and João Galamba about the involvement of SIS in the recovery of the computer of the former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure” .
Identifying “a gross discrepancy” between what was reported by João Galamba, António Costa and Mendonça Mendes, the PSD announced that it would request the extraction of the minutes of the Infrastructure Minister’s hearing in the Commission of Inquiry, so that “it could be sent to the prosecution” to deepen the possibility “of the existence of the crime of false statements” in this commission.
Source: DN
