After the case of the community funds received by her husband was denounced, the Minister of Cohesion had already cried in a commission, but avoided responding to deputies and journalists on the subject. After days of silence, this Monday Ana Abrunhosa wrote an article in the newspaper Público in which she argues that a change in the law to prevent relatives of ministers from competing for community funds would increase the “climate of distrust” about the political class and it would be a “suppression of rights”. The governor also writes that they want to turn her husband into a “second-class citizen” and defends herself against various accusations, including some that were not made against her.
Ana Abrunhosa begins by saying that there was news that “purposefully left the insinuation in the air” that her husband only received the funds because he was married to the ruler and that he always acted “legally”. Now, the first article, from the Observer, said precisely that the allocation of funds was legal, but highlighted the “darkness of the law” mentioned by a ruling by the Attorney General’s Office in this regard.
Once again —as António Costa had done in the general policy debate in the Assembly of the Republic— Ana Abrunhosa ignored full reference to “darkness of the law” throughout the opinion piece he wrote for the newspaper. This is when the parliamentary group of the PS itself, through the vice president of the caucus Pedro Delgado Alves, has already expressed its willingness to “improve” the law, as well as other parties that admit extending the restrictions that exist for public contracting to relatives who receive funds from the community.
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Source: Observadora
