The deputy of the BE, Mariana Mortágua, stressed this Wednesday that “no deputy has the power to erase minutes” of the parliamentary commissions and defended that the PS retract, after an episode during the hearing of Minister Ana Abrunhosa.
“The PS deputy’s statements would be serious if they weren’t nonsense, no deputy has the power to erase records of what happens in the commissions,” he said, speaking to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic.
Mariana Mortágua pointed out that “it is impossible” and considered that “it is good that it is so, it would be an attack on democracy if it were not so”.
“I believe that the PS Parliamentary Group does not follow these statements and that it will have the opportunity to retract. I hope you do, that’s the right attitude.”
On news they realize that two companies owned by the minister’s husband received community fundsDeputy BE began by pointing out that “the prosecutor says that it is legal but that the law must be changed, and that means two things.”
“In the first place, that there is an ethical problem to which the Government and the minister have to respond, in the second place, that it is up to parliament to modify this law, taking into account the indication of the prosecutor about a possible conflict of interest between the minister who has responsibilities community funds and close family relationships that can access these community funds”, said Mariana Mortágua.
During the minister’s hearing at the Local Energy Commission, the socialist deputy Isabel Guerreiro asked that the moment in which the deputy Carlos Guimarães Pinto, from IL, request the resignation of the Minister of Cohesion be removed from the minutes and the recording of the commission territorial.
At issue is the news item advanced by the Observer reporting that two companies owned by Ana Abrunhosa’s husband received community funds in the area she oversees.
The companies of the husband of the Minister of Cohesion received EU funds. PGR says it is legal, but criticizes “darkness” of the law
According to Expresso, the liberal deputy questioned the official this morning about the “ethical issue” that underlies the fact that only one of his wife’s companies, Thermalvet, received 133 thousand euros from the European Union (EU) and asked her return the money. or resign.
Source: Observadora
