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PS Secretary-General Pedro Nuno Santos.
The Inquiry Committee to the “Word of the Year” will fall, if Montenegro explains everything before the elections.
Asked about the case of Spinumviva-name of the company that according to journalist António Costa do Eco considered that “it will probably be the word of the year 2025”-Pedro Nuno Santos said he already knows “enough to make a negative judgment of seriousness as a prime minister”, Luís Montenegro.
And admitted to drop the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to the case of the company that the PS presented in Parliament, case Montenegro fully clarifies its involvement until the end of the election campaign, again saying that it expects that it is not necessary to resort to this instrument in the next legislature.
Case of two houses? “It was useful to clarify before going to votes”
Already on the preventive investigation that surrounds it, the secretary general of the PS said he expected to be clarified before the Portuguese vote for the legislatures-and should also send “probably, during this day”, this Tuesday, the request to the prosecutor to be heard, guarantees.
Pedro Nuno Santos refused to make any criticism or appreciation about the public prosecutor’s work, which he claimed to have “total respect”, insisting that “the anonymous complaints made at this time had a political motivation“.
For the leader of the PS, since this theme on the purchase of his two houses was raised during the election campaign, it was important “if he could be clarified before the Portuguese were called to the polls”, on May 18.
“I think this was useful because it is a theme that comes during a campaign where the country is being mobilized to make a choice about who will be Parliament, but also about who will be the leader of the country,” he said.
Pedro Nuno Santos pointed out that this decision that the Portuguese have to make in the elections is “too important so that there is no effort from all instances so that things are resolved until elections.”
“It was correct, not so much for me, it was for the Portuguese who will make a choice on May 18 and have to know if they have any reason for concern with those in front of them,” he said.
The PS leader expects this situation not to harm youensuring that he did everything “what he could” with the explanations he gave, putting all public information as he said.
“I had my opponent done the same if we may not have been in the situation we are in,” he said again.
The PS leader assumed that “as unpleasant as it may be to make a striptease of his life,” this “is the cost of decision” that has made it in political life, reiterating that the Prime Minister should provide all clarifications about the situations that surround him.
