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André Ventura and Luís Montenegro in Parliament
The Hernani Dias case originated an “hot” initial phase. Prime Minister and Leader of the arrival of the arrival. The “bad guys” were again the subject.
The biweekly debate in the Assembly of the Republic, which had the Prime Minister, had two protagonists: Luís Montenegro and André Ventura.
The Hernani Dias case originated an “hot” initial phase. Prime Minister and Leader of the arrival of the arrival.
Asked by André Ventura about the case of the Secretary of State for Local Administration and Planning of the Territory, Hernani Dias, who was on January 28 after being reported by those who created two real estate companies while ruler and responsible for the newly published decree that alters the legal regime of territorial management instruments, the controversial law of soils, Luís Montenegro considered that it is not correct to speak of “incompatibilities or business” since “a activity of these companies was zero”.
But Montenegro admitted that Hernâni Dias was reckless: “Participation in two companies that were created was a recklessness From the Secretary of State, of course it was, and that is why he assumed the political dimension. ”
André Ventura insisted and asked “eyes in the eyes” to the prime minister because it didn’t fired the now former secretary of state. “It’s very simple: because it didn’t take. He took the initiative and I think he did well, ”replied the government leader.
Accusations
The president of the arrival accused the prime minister of lying and suggested that he can “leave”, with Luis Montenegro to answer him that “is about to give and last.”
The exchange of arguments between the two began at the biweekly debate phase of the arrival of the arrival and extended to that of the PSD, after, both the Prime Minister and the Social Democratic Parliamentary Leader, Hugo Soares, accused the President of the President of No more convicted by justice.
At the opening of the debate, André Ventura referred the case of former Secretary of State Hernani Dias and argued that “To be serious is to tell those who commit crimes that the door of the street is the use of the house”.
“If I were like the MP, I would answer him like this’For this order of reason, the door was open to itself, which has already been accused and even convicted ‘”The Prime Minister stirred.
André Ventura asked for an interpellation at the table and challenged the prime minister to realize when it was “criminally convicted” and in what process.
Luís Montenegro pointed out that the arrival leader has this information and that “it was in the exercise of political functions when he went to certain citizens and was sentenced by the court in the civil component… ” – And here it was interrupted by smiles and shouts from the arrival bench and the ventura itself. “The deputy is pleased to have been convicted – but was it only civilly, wasn’t it criminally?“.
“It is not worth summoning your posture compared to my posture once again, […] because it plays to its disadvantage, ”he said, recommending that he ventures:“ masochistic”.
André Ventura said that the Prime Minister lied: “The Prime Minister is a liar In this house and I have to say this like that. ”
Luís Montenegro said André Ventura “There is no cure And we have to deal with you like this. ”
Ventura accused Montenegro of “Being the lower politician in the last years of this house”And he left him advice:“ If it takes everything as a personal attack, then, Lord Prime Minister, It’s time to leave”He said, after demanding answers from the head of government about the number of immigrant citizens in Portugal.
“Do not confuse your desire with reality. I am here to give and last, unlike mr. Deputy: It is here because I wanted to be a prime minister and thus introduced himself to the electorate. Then I wanted to be a minister. And now you want to be President of the Republic. Who is in the mood to leave is not me, is the deputy”Criticized the prime minister.
Montenegro considered that the arrival leader has “a way of being that does not indicate seriousness, honesty, common sense, moderation spirit of respect for institutions, people, which is what must mark political action” and accused the happiness of being “Highly contradictory with the principles it invokes and requires to others. ”
Then the parliamentary leader of the PSD, Hugo Soares, He resumed the theme of the conviction to the arrival of the arrival: “He was actually convicted of the commission of a crime in the exercise of political functions. The Prime Minister did not lie and, by its criterion, I was no longer leading the party bench”, He accused.
André Ventura made an interpellation to the table to be distributed the sentence of its conviction, which stressed that it was civil and not criminal.
Montenegro spoke of the case of 2021 when, in the campaign for presidential elections, he was convicted of offending the honor and good name of a family in the Jamaica neighborhood of Seixal by statements made in 2021 during a television debate during the Campaign for the presidential ones he held with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Called “Bandits” To this family-and now, four years later, André Ventura said the same in Parliament, this Thursday: “Do you know what more? I repeat this here and now, in Parliament ”.
