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Miguel Arruda with André Ventura
André Ventura introduced two ways to Miguel Arruda – the deputy chose a third. Ventura never spoke of presumption of innocence.
The deputy Miguel Arruda, suspected of stolen bags at airports, confirmed on Thursday that will pass to non -registered deputyfailing to integrate the parliamentary group of He arrives, e party.
“I move to the condition of independent only and exclusively for protect the party”He said.
The deputy elected by the Azores spoke to journalists after a meeting of about half an hour with the president of arriving in the Assembly of the Republic.
The parliamentarian said that, at the meeting, André Ventura transmitted to him that, to continue linked to the arrival, would have to suspend or renounce the term.
“The president made me available two options, But I already brought my defined option”He said.
The deputy said to be innocent, that the bags found in your home are yours, and considered that, While defending itself, it cannot be “connoted with any kind of party”.
Asked if he is able to continue as a nation deputy, Miguel Arruda replied: “Of course, if I consider myself innocent, if I sleep rested and with a quiet conscience…”
“We are in a rule of law, a person is only judged and condemned on his own place, before a judgeit is not in the public square, ”he defended.
Ventura was not clarified
A few minutes later, André Ventura also spoke to journalists in the Assembly of the Republic and refused that Miguel Arruda is an inconvenience For the party, despite considering that “there are facts that are disturbing.”
“No, it would be uncomfortable to deal badly with a matter that gets justice, that gets into the police, that gets ethical and transparency. We ligated well, made the right decision, even if it causes personal disorders, we showed that we are a fiber different from all other parties, ”he said.
Ventura said that explanations given by Miguel Arruda “are not enlightening”reiterating that, to continue linked to the arrival, the deputy would have to suspend or renounce the mandate.
The party president indicated that he transmitted Miguel Arruda that “in the face of these circumstances” could not “allow him to continue in the parliamentary group.”
“There are facts that are not a matter of your interpretation, it is a question of what enters us around the house. […] Orathere are facts here that are disturbing, which is the fact that there are three bags with surveillance and one out“He said, considering that” it is good that there is a very reasonable explanation for this. “
“If the suitcases were his, that I believe they could eventually be some bags of him, the PSP would certainly not have mobilized to go to a police operation to find these bags,” said André Ventura.
Even so, I did not want to directly say that it does not believe that Miguel Arruda is innocent.
“Eu I keep it for me This position, but I know what the party believes, the party believes that justice what is justice, politics what is politics, the party believes that there can be no proceedings with evidence of this type with maintenance of the mandate of the deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, ”he said.
André Ventura pointed out that “The deputies of the arrival have to give an example of transparency and integrity“And he said that” in the face of a situation where he has to make a decision of ethics and transparency, he arrives, unlike other parties, has not faltered. “
“We don’t keep permanent situations of doubt and suspicion here,” he argued. However, the Deputy will continue in Parliamentalthough it no longer integrates the parliamentary group of arrival. Ventura demarcated this situation: “This is no longer a matter of arrival“.
The arrival of the arrival also warned Miguel Arruda that he could be the subject of a disciplinary action inside the party.
“I would not say that I forced him to defiliate, but I transmitted that there would be consequences,” he said.
“Lack of leadership”
That is, André Ventura presented two paths to Miguel Arruda – the deputy chose a third. Not obeyed to the president of his (former) party.
This process reveals a “Structural Problem” No one, according to Nuno Ramos de Almeida.
SIC’s commentator considers that there are many elements of the party with “little baggage” and “weakly prepared” in preparation and attitude – and this will be more visible in this year’s municipal elections.
But Nuno Ramos de Almeida leaves a warning: This case “won’t take even a vote”.
Rui Pedro Antunes said in the same television station, he saw a “tight” André Ventura in the aforementioned statements to journalists. “This is terrible for the arrival and for ventura”.
The commentator is contrary to Miguel Arruda, who said he leaves the party to defend the interests of the arrival: “He will defend his own interests!”.
Rui also contradicts André Ventura, who claimed that Miguel Arruda is not an uncomfortable to arrive: “While Arruda there is (in Parliament), it will be a kind of rotten apple. It will contaminate everything else. It will be a problem every day to arrive, whenever it appears in the assembly. ”
Rui Pedro Antunes underlines that Ventura really wanted to force Arruda from Parliament and put another deputy elected in the Azores. Failed: “Contrary to what Ventura tries to sell, this shows a lack of leadership. What prevailed here was not the desire of André Ventura, was the will of the deputy. ”
Already in, and citing expressions of his own arrival, Ruben Martins suggested that Miguel Arruda is a “shameless who is clinging to pan ”.
In the same program, commentator Helena Pereira stressed another aspect: when she spoke to journalists, André Ventura never spoke in presumption of innocence: “Do not admit it. He went to Rasca ” – and always refused to say that he believes Miguel Arruda is innocent.
