The parliamentary leader of the Left Bloc considered this Tuesday that the Minister of Health made a “serious political error”, but he sent the decision on a possible resignation of the ruler to the Public Ministry and the Constitutional Court.
“The minister put himself in a circumstance that demonstrates a huge political error, a certain arrogance and an arrogance that those who come to a government that has already been in office for several years would not expect. (…) As for the consequences that can be drawn from it, the parliamentary groups cannot act in this context because there is a law, and the law says that it is the Public Ministry, it is the Constitutional Court, which assesses the consequences of the non-compliance in this context”, stressed Pedro Filipe Soares.
The parliamentary leader of the Left Bloc (BE) was speaking to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic, reacting to news indicating that the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, is the managing partner of a company in the area that he supervises, which makes it incompatible to exercise government functions.
Pedro Filipe Soares said that BE waits “with all serenity that the Public Ministry and the Constitutional Court rule on the matter and on the timing for correcting this reality.”
“We are not going to interfere with what the Constitutional Court says, in regards to the Public Ministry”assured.
However, in political terms, Pedro Filipe Soares criticized the executive and Manuel Pizarro, considering that “the minister shows an arrogance in conducting his mandate that is only matched by members of the Government, but is not understood in society.”
For the parliamentary leader of BE, the case of Manuel Pizarro “is another mistake, another case of the Government”, which causes, “once again”, to speak “of a case and not of health policy”.
“It is once again the arrogance of an absolute majority of the PS Governmentthat takes the lead in matters that should define and guide public affairs”, he considered.
Pedro Filipe Soares stressed that the case does not bring “anything new” either with respect to the way in which the Minister of Health and the Government “look at health”.
“We were aware of the proximity [de Manuel Pizarro] particularly the social sector. We know how the Government, even before Minister Manuel Pizarro came to the Government, (…) has had a policy that has given more millions from the SNS to the private sector, than defending the SNS and its quality of care for the populations”, said. .
The parliamentary leader of BE stressed that the political concerns of his party “remain”, now adding “the issue of conducting cases that add up and that here is another serious political error on the part of the minister.”
Asked if he fears that the successive cases within this government will divert the focus of the budget debate, Pedro Filipe Soares has underlined that there is a temptation, “which becomes even more acute at times of absolute majority”, to think “that these circumstances are cases isolated, punctual and that pass with the foam of the days”.
However, in the opinion of the blockist parliamentary leader, these cases “serve to demonstrate to many people the degradation of the political system, a certain disqualification of democracy, and thereby create a discontent that becomes a kind of swamp” of democracy. . regime.
Pedro Filipe Soares attributed the responsibility for this situation to the President of the Government, António Costa, who “came to the Government promising a code of conduct, a new way of giving transparency to the country in the democratic space”, but, at a time when he has “absolute majority to be able to do it, has been reduced to problems of dialogue” and the “proliferation of these cases and cases”.
Questioned about Chega’s participation in the Constitutional Court in the Manuel Pizarro case, Pedro Filipe Soares said that he considered it “more an act of political propaganda than of concrete content.”
Source: Observadora
