The president of Chega defended that the PSD did not advance with the proposal to create an investigation commission on the alleged interference of the president of the Government in the bank for fear that it could be affected.
Speaking at a dinner rally in Loures (Lisbon district), Friday night, on the occasion of November 25, André Ventura said that he was surprised by the PSD’s choice.
“I heard Luís Montenegro say that we had to find out, we had to know and investigate, this was a week and a half or two weeks ago. I was aware that this was going to happen, for the first time in many years since António Costa entered the Government we could have the first truly right-wing front to force this Government to investigate ”, he defended.
The PSD finally withdrew from the commission of inquiry, and I had the clear feeling that someone had called the leader of the PSD and told him ‘don’t get involved in this because that’s going to stay with the PSD,’” he said. the leader of Chega.
And he considered that when “there is a scandal”, the “other party does not want to investigate either because it may affect them, then another is born and this same party is not interested because one day, who knows, in the future.” , this could have consequences for them.”
“They created a giant octopus, they created a huge corruption machine that is sedimented in our history of 46 years ago,” he accused.
On Sunday, Chega formalized in Parliament the proposal for the constitution of a commission of inquiry that the deputies assess “the possible political interference of the prime minister with the former governor of the Bank of Portugal, in relation to the position of the businesswoman Isabel dos Santos in BIC Português SA” and “whether the Banif resolution process was subject to interference abusive by the government.”
On Wednesday, the PSD asked António Costa 12 questions about the dismissal of Isabel dos Santos from the BIC and about the Banif resolution, but did not entirely rule out the possibility of a parliamentary inquiry into the case in the future, with the parliament leader . stating that the party will decide whether to go ahead “depending on the responses” of the prime minister.
This Saturday, the leader pointed out that his party “was the only one” that presented the proposal for a parliamentary investigation and criticized “the left-wing parties.” [que] they whistled aside, they said that’s not the issue now, [que] what matters is the great struggle of the working class”, while the Liberal Initiative “can’t say much about the bank, that’s why I didn’t say anything”.
Still in the context of this case, the president of Chega accused the prime minister of being “before the separation of powers, independence or independent regulation.”
André Ventura accused António Costa of wanting to “protect his relationship with Angola”, protect “his relationship with the Santos family” and “protect a criminal”.
In his 30-minute speech, the president of Chega made a parallel between November 25, 1975 and the present, and highlighted the party’s fight “against the system.”
Today it is not the PCP wanting to put fiats at the doors of the barracks or flying through the air of Portugal, today it is the PS infiltrating the justice, public administration, banking, companies and wanting to command everything in Portugal, and there only a party that stands up to them, the only one they fear because it is not afraid of facing them ”, he defended.
André Ventura assumed that Chega “will not give up until it is the main opposition party in Portugal to fight for the Government against António Costa in 2026” and pointed out that “the fight of tanks, guns and planes in the sky is today the fight from street to street to conquer the soul of the Portuguese”.
“This November 25 that we need, this November 25 to which we have been transported today, is the fight that we have to wage today against corruption in the socialist government, against the progressive annulment of the middle class, against the brutal increase in the taxes, against the destruction of retirees, against the misery that they want to veto us”, he listed.
Source: Observadora
