This Friday, parliament rejected Chegar’s proposal to set up a parliamentary commission to investigate the Interior Ministry and the forces under its control in the event of an accident that killed a worker on the A6 in June.
The initiative was rejected by votes against PS, BE, PCP, PAN, Verdes and unaligned MP Joacin Qatar Moreira, and a vote in favor of the CDS and the Liberal Initiative (IL). During the debate, André Ventura said that the party’s proposal was not aimed at investigating a “possible road crime” involving Eduardo Cabrita, nor at his “more or less malicious circumstances.”
“This commission of inquiry rather seeks to determine whether the abuse of power, violation of the separation of powers and improper interference of various state institutions by the Ministry of Internal Affairs took place,” said the leader of Chegi.
Claiming that parliament “ignored” the case, Chega’s leader called for a “serious” investigation into the accident involving a government official who “never wanted to talk” about the case, talking about “zero degree” impunity and the system.
Criticism of “political opportunism” and “banalization” of commissions of inquiry.
During the debate, most parties criticized the proposal, complaining about “political opportunism” and the “banalization” of the commissions of inquiry, preferring to wait for the results of the prosecutor’s investigation.
Despite criticism of the “long-term secrecy” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the “insensitivity” of Eduardo Cabrita, who remained silent on the case, MP Carlos Peixoto of the SDP considered it necessary to wait until the investigation was completed. deputy. “As soon as the facts become known, let’s hope that this will happen sooner rather than later, we will be here to impute political responsibility or not. At the moment, the composition of the commission of inquiry has not yet been substantiated. explain well what happened, here it is, – threw the Social Democrat deputy.
On the BE side, Pedro Filipe Soares condemned the use of the “tragic” accident involving the MAI car as a “political push”, stressing that the investigation is ongoing. “We are calmly waiting for this investigation to be completed. We have to criticize that the investigation takes too long, but we are not playing the game of political opportunism on such a serious issue, ”said the parliamentary leader of the Blok.
Communist MP Antonio Filipe also denied Chegi’s proposal, stressing that the incident is already being investigated by the competent authorities and that “until proven otherwise,” it should be completely trusted and not used to extract “political dividends”. “If there is to be a parliamentary inquiry that surpasses the judicial inquiry that is currently underway, this is what is being discussed. It is important that such a proposal appears, any well-trained person should not resort to political gimmicks with tragic accident,” he criticized.
PAN MP Nelson Silva criticized the “banalization” of the commissions of inquiry, stressing that the MP had already launched an investigation to investigate the circumstances of the death, and that INEM had launched an internal investigation into assistance in the accident. “It seems to us that enough investigations have already begun to establish the facts,” he said, regretting, however, that there are more questions than answers in the case.
“The minister promised speed and solidarity, but in fact, four months have passed, and we still do not know such simple facts as speed, whether the work was signposted or if GNR was ordered by top management to be prohibited from doing its job,” he said. …
In turn, MP Francisco Oliveira considered Chega’s proposal “completely inadequate” after the committee rejected the hearing of the case of Eduardo Cabrita. “Chega’s persistence has no intention other than obvious political gain, including the death of a citizen,” the MP condemned, once again expressing condolences to the Nuno Santos family on behalf of the PS parliamentary group.
CDS and IL Request Full Clarification
Only CDS-PP and IL have defended André Ventura’s proposal, calling for a thorough clarification of the case. CDS parliamentary leader, Telmo Correia, believed there were “signs” that there were “deliberate actions” on the part of the guardianship to hide facts from public opinion in the event of an accident, and that a parliamentary committee of inquiry could help investigate the facts. But he rejected the idea, advocated by Deputy Chega, that parliament “overlooked” the case. “We presented a number of questions to the Moscow Aviation Institute,” he stressed. “After the accident, we have clear indications that the minister did not come for any explanations and would at least tell a lie about the circumstances of the accident itself,” he said. stressed, pointing to the “political dimension” of the case.
Cotrim de Figueiredo also said that IL does not like “to confuse the plan of judicial investigations with parliamentary work, but 120 days without answers in the case is unacceptable. In this absolutely unbearable atmosphere of impunity, ”he concluded.
It was June 18, when a car following the Minister of the Interior fatally ran into an A6, a worker who was repairing a road near Évora.
