What guilt does it arrive in the case of Miguel Arruda’s bags?

The still deputy Miguel Arruda is a stain for the arrival after being argued by the alleged baggage at the airport. In the midst of suspicions against the Azorean politician, he wonders how his party did not find the presence of so many bags strange in Parliament.

André Ventura, president of the arrival, insists on the request to renounce his mandate as a deputy, aware that his presence in Parliament, even if outside the rows of the party for which he was elected, becoming as not inscribed, is an embarrassment.

But Arruda has already said, in statements to RTP1, that the resignation to the term of office “It has to be very well thought out”. The Azorean Deputy also assured that he is already due to all the turmoil created with the already called “Malagate”.

And venture does not doubt that alleged luggage theft may result from “A psychiatric problem”which puts the condition of Arruda as deputy, but also arrives by having chosen it to integrate his lists in the Azores.

Ventura assumes that he was the one who chose Arruda

The President of the arrival assumes political responsibility for the choice of Miguel Arruda to List Head in the Azoresbut claims that it was unaware of any “psychic problems.”

“As party president, I am the one who makes choicesEven if indicated by third parties, ”Anstem Ventura in Parliament, in statements to journalists, assuming“ political responsibility ”.

“But the president of a party cannot be held responsible for all personal and private acts Which employees, deputies or others, completely out of their mandate, in breach of rules and the law, carry out in terms of criminal behavior, ”says Ventura.

Thus, the leader of the arrival Ask for “in the name of dignity, on behalf of Portugal, on behalf of the parliamentary group by which it was elected, that [Arruda] renounce your mandate. ”

Ventura insists that if he will continue as a deputy not registered in the Assembly of the Republic (AR) “will be an offense“.

When did the arrival know about the bags in Parliament?

The authorities performed Search for Miguel Arruda’s office At the Assembly of the Republic, this Tuesday, January 28, and other objects.

Will have been seized four bags and a sports bag which was stolen in October 2024 at Lisbon airport. In the media, there were also several photos with the alleged bags in the deputy’s office.

The offices of deputies in the Assembly of the Republic are relatively small and It’s strange that no one, especially in arrives, considered the presence of So bad.

Otherwise, rue divided the office with Deputy Daniel Teixeirayoung man elected by Setúbal and member of the Foursquare Gospel Church, which certainly would be aware of the presence of objects in the place.

Ventura assured, on Tuesday, in Parliament, that I just knew about the bags In the cabinet last Thursday, January 23, after the case became public in the media.

But the following Friday, January 24, went to SIC be surprised With an image that showed several bags in Arruda’s office. “I don’t know that this cabinet is this, I don’t know what bags are these“He stressed.

Ventura does not explain why it did not report air soon on the bags

In Parliament, on Tuesday, January 28, Ventura also assured journalists that It was the arrival To the President of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, the presence of the bags in Arruda’s office.

“It was the arrival that on Thursday [23 de Janeiro]communicated to the president of the air the existence of these objects and warned that they were related to the crime productof a crime that had been publicly exposed, ”said Ventura, noting that the party also“ asked the necessary articulation between the sovereignty body, the parliament and the judicial authorities to be made ”.

But this will have happened after Arruda had communicated the ventura that would pass, refusing to suspend the mandate As the arrival leader wanted.

Ventura could not explain Why the party soon did not communicate the existence of the bags after Arruda was on Tuesday, January 21.

Aguiar-Branco confirmed that he had a conversation in the corridors of Parliament with the vice president of the arrival, Rui Paulo Sousa, about the case last Thursday, but stressed that what was said was “absolutely irrelevant for the investigation ”.

“Warning for what? It was an investigation runningalerting what, ”he asked Aguiar-Branco when confronted with the arrival version.

“There was an order” that “requested that some goods that were allegedly in the air and a particular cabinet were appointed, the collaboration of the air was requested, within what was the legal framework, the Assembly did it” , clarified also Aguiar-Branco.

“Everything took place without incidents” and the rest is “Political Rhetoric”also stressed the president of AR.

Aguiar-Branco also stressed that at the time he had no knowledge about the request for lifting Miguel Arruda’s parliamentary immunity.