Montenegro is annoyed with journalists (and takes his son to the campaign)

The Spinumviva case went back to Luís Montenegro’s campaign – for his own voice. The son, Hugo Montenegro, is available to clarify in Parliament.

“Do you have no more questions to ask me every day? ”. So was outraged by Luis Montenegro against a journalist from RTP. But who had asked the question had been a SIC journalist.

“So it’s sic, it’s done, but I saw the RTP microphone that has been more insistent I don’t know, but They want to ask the same questions again What were you doing two months ago and three ago? Honestly, I’m very quiet about that, ”said the prime minister during a visit to the Fair of Espinho this Monday.

Later, the leader of Ad Rumo Rumo Real, where he was attended by his son, Hugo Montenegro, for the campaign on the street. The current manager of Spinumviva said, according to advance, that it is Available to make statements in the Assembly of the Republic in a possible Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI).

According to IL and “gossip”

Already asked about the statements of IL President Rui Rocha the day before he had been challenged by the PSD leaders for a pre-election coalition-he refused-Montenegro did not respond directly.

“What I proposed was a coalition to the Portuguese to continue to believe this government and this is the one that matters now. Conversations between the parties I think there are and will always exist, but It is not my habit distracting the Portuguese and the Portuguese as political gossip, When what is at stake are strategic options for the country’s future, ”he said.

Questioned about whether there are coalition problems PSD/CDS-PP, answered with one brief: “None of that.”

For his part, the liberal leader, Rui Rocha, has already responded to the provocations. “I, on the question of gossip, mean that this is not. This is about being transparent with the Portuguese and to frame the Portuguese in the context of statements that were made by AD responsible. It doesn’t seem to me that this is mexoric, ”he said.

“It is not denied, because cannot be denied That there was this attempt and this intention, ”he said, stating that this challenge was made by the“ part of the highest leadership of the PSD ”. And it ensures:“ I am sure that will not say the oppositenor did they say the opposite. ”

Asked why Luís Montenegro did not want to confirm these conversations, Rui Rocha acknowledged that the revelations he did may have generated “some discomfort”, But he stressed that he decided to do them due to statements made by “AD responsible”, in reference to the president of CDS-PP, Nuno Melo, who said that his party’s coalition “is with the PSD, it is not with anyone else.”

Free does not give up CPI

“If Luís Montenegro continues as Prime Minister, of course We will have to evaluate the relevance of a parliamentary commission of inquiry And if others who are the original authors of this idea do not want to proceed with it [referindo-se ao PS]Free is open to evaluating this hypothesis, ”said this Monday Rui Tavares.

Rui Tavares also took the opportunity to condemn the fact that Luís Montenegro was engaged with the journalist who questioned him about Spinumviva. “This discomfort, irritation and frustration In answering questions is a bad news for press freedom, ”he said.