Marcelo is letting the State Council be “partisanized and manipulated by Ventura”

Chega leader asks for State Council on security, President of the Republic asks for opinion instead of deciding alone.

The in a shopping center in Viseu, which killed one person, caused Andre Ventura asked for a meeting of the State Council to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa about the security in Portugal.

The president of Chega also called for this Tuesday, the 7th, an urgent debate in the Assembly of the Republic on security.

The President of the Republic revealed on Friday that he considered it prudent consult with other State councilors about this request from André Ventura – as it was made in writing.

“I think it was prudent before the next Council meetings, you counselors say also – if they want, they may not want to – in writing what do they think idea”, explained Marcelo.

The day before, an official indicated: “Following the letter sent by the State Councilor Professor Doctor André Ventura, the President of the Republic requested that it be sent to the other State Councilors to transmit what they considered appropriate”.

“I.e, the President of the Republic went to ask his advisory body if he should be advised by the advisory body“, reacts Vítor Matos, specialist in politics.

“That is absurd!”, continues, on the radio: “The president either decides that he wants to be advised, or decides that he does not want to be advised: he does not ask the advisor whether he should give him advice.”

In this context, Vítor Matos remembers the reaction of Carlos Caesar. The PS president said that “the methodology that emanates from Ventura’s initiative is the shortest path to gross partisan manipulation of the State Council, an unprecedented fact in our institutional order”.

Vítor Matos adds: Marcelo is letting the State Council be “partisanized and manipulated by André Venturagiving in to the attempt to wear down institutions”.