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Luis Márquez Mendes did not like that the SBF published a photograph of João Rendeiro’s arrest and reproduced it in various media. “I do not know who gave the picture [à comunicação social]… But whoever made this disclosure shouldn’t have done it, ”he said in his weekly commentary on SIC.
“João Rendeiro behaved like a complete fraud throughout the entire process.… With arrogance and complete arrogance. But even someone who behaves like a fraud has the right to dignity and does not deserve ridicule and humiliation, and this photo pursues this goal, ”he stressed.
The commentator reports that the Judicial Police (UP) made “a Christmas present for themselves, Portuguese justice and the country.” Márquez Méndez praises PJ’s work in the João Rendeiro area and adds that “it has once again proven its efficiency, quality and professionalism. And all this without information leakage. None of this is very Portuguese. But this is great! “
The former leader of the SDP condemns the position of João Rendeiro and says: “Now we have learned two other incredible things:
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on the one hand, his preoccupation with the life of “the great and the French”;
on the other hand, his illusion that he can escape justice indefinitely. ” And he goes on to say that “in this global world of intense judicial and police cooperation, only an arrogant and conceited person can accept such a hypothesis.”
With regard to the extradition process, the commenter asks for caution and warns against “arching” because the formal process can take a long time to materialize. Mendes says the natural decision the Verulam Magistrates’ Court in Verulam, on the outskirts of Durban, makes this Monday will include a preventive opinion, which the commentator classifies as “an obvious coercive measure,” but warns that Rendeiro’s defense will go. everything to avoid it. Another reason: prisons in South Africa are not the best recommendation in the world. One day you will miss the opportunity not to stay in a Portuguese prison “, underlines.
Regarding Rui Rio’s reaction to Rendeiro’s arrest, Marquez Mendes comments that “Rui Rio was very … how would you say? Very unhappy. And he has no special authority to issue such criticism. “
The commentator recalls that in 2019, the current leader of the SDP took advantage of the accusations against former minister Azeredo Lopez and did not criticize the justice calendar at the time. For Marquez Mendes, “Anyone who wants to have an idea of the state and be the prime minister should not make statements of this kind.”
Marquez Mendes also commented lists of candidates for SDP deputies and again criticized Rui Rio for the criteria for choosing names, saying that everything is “predictable.” For the former SDP leader, Rio was a mistake to “take revenge” on the internal opposition, because “the parliamentary group is not a political commission of the leader.”
However, he adds, “he will not lose on the lists.” “With this attitude, he loses his votes faster,” he concludes.
Márquez Mendes pointed out several mistakes in the compilation of the PS and PSD lists for the legislature, namely the exclusion of Luis Marquez Guedes and Francisco Assis.
Regarding the removal of the first, who was a minister under the President of the Council of Ministers, Mendes says that he “terrible mistake” for a long political program. While the exclusion of Assisi was explained as the reason for not recognizing the political error in the creation of the construction.
