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Victor Hugo Salgado
After knowing that the president of PS/Braga, Victor Hugo Salgado, is being Investigated by domestic violence, the party asked him to waive office. Pedro Nuno Santos also reported that he removed his support for his friend, for local elections.
Last Thursday the observer reported that Victor Hugo SalgadoMayor of Vizela and President of PS/Braga, is being investigated on suspicion of the crime of domestic violence.
Four days later, he asked him to waive office, informing him that will not support him in the reciplination of the House of Vizela.
In a statement sent to the Lusa Agency, the PS expresses “its unambiguous conviction of any form of domestic violence and expresses profound concern about the information that came to public” about the mayor of Vizela and the Braga District Federation of PS.
“The Secretary-General of the Socialist Party, Pedro Nuno Santos, requested Victor Hugo Salgado to resign as president of the Braga PS Federation. He also reported that the Socialist Party will not support its reconditeration for the presidency of the Vizela City Council,” he announces in the same statement.
The PS reaffirms the “commitment to firm combat and determined to all forms of violence, regardless of who practice them”.
“We stress that the case is in the inquiry phase and that it is to court that it is responsible for ascertaining the facts and ensuring proper liability, with full respect for the principle of presumption of innocence”He added.
The socialists reiterate total solidarity with victims of violence and underline “the importance that all complaints are investigated with the utmost rigor and speed, guaranteeing justice and protection to those who need it most.”
The aggressions will have occurred in February this year, and will have forced the woman to be rescued in the hospital twice in a space of less than 24 hours at the hospital of Guimarães, which refused to comment.
PGR writes that “it is confirmed only the existence of an inquiry, subject to the secret of justice.” GNR states that “research steps in the context of the crime process in question”.
Friday, Victor Hugo Salgado said that the news about alleged aggressions to the woman is an “attempted instrumentalization of private life for political purposes”.
“The public exposure of these facts [notícias de alegadas agressões físicas]oblivious to civic life or political debate, it is an attempt to instrumentalize private life for the purposes of political combat, ”said the mayor and his wife in a joint statement and the Lusa had access today.
The mayor of Vizela announced the reconditeration in the next elections, in March, at a presentation dinner that was attended by Pedro Nuno Santos
