Tiago Petinga / Lusa
The Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Coins
Manuel Alegre considers that the mayor of Lisbon revealed a lack of leadership before the accident with the Glory Elevator; and lack of education in criticism of the PS. Even José Sócrates got time to scold Carlos Coins.
To leave the court where it is being tried under the process of Operation Marquês, in Lisbon, Socrates arranged time and willingness to scrape the coins.
The former prime minister denied the current mayor of Lisbon on the resignation from Jorge CoelhoMinister of Social Equipment in 2001, when the bridge of Entre-os-Rios fell.
Socrates stressed that, following the tragedy, the late socialist leader resigned for political responsibility and not because I knew that there were problems in the equipment.
On Sunday, during an interview with SIC, Carlos Coins said that Jorge Coelho’s office had received information that pointed to the bridge’s fragility even before the accident, while in his case, on the contrary, he received no sign in this sense in relation to the Glory Elevator.
“This is false. I remember that, tonight, when the bridge fell over the river, I remember perfectly having spoken with Minister Jorge Coelho. This was not the reason for your dismissal [conhecimento da existência de problemas]it was a political reason, ”said José Sócrates, who in 2001 was the minister of environmental environment and planning.
“[Jorge Coelho] I knew nothing that there was a problem that the bridge had and that the ministry already knew. He resigned because he understood that there was political responsibility, ”added the former prime minister.
“Lack of education,” says Manuel Alegre
This Tuesday, Manuel Alegre He was questioned by the media on the way on the accident last Wednesday with the Glory Elevator in Lisbon, which caused 16 dead and several injuries seriously.
“I feel like mourning, like all the Lisbon and all the Portuguese,” he began by affirming the socialist history.
Interrogated on the performance of the mayor of Lisbon, Manuel Alegre replied: “It has not similar to me. I think he did not take the lead of the situation as I should assume.”
In your opinion, Carlos Coins “was very unhappy” In the references he made to the PS: “I think There was also a bad education problem in the way he criticized the PS candidate to the Lisbon Chamber [Alexandra Leitão]”.
“And something I refrained from classifying in the way I referred to Jorge Coelhothat is not here to defend itself and had a very noble and very worthy attitude when it resigned after that accident, ”added the former deputy and vice-president of the Assembly of the Republic.
About the allegation on Sunday, by Carlos Coins, that Jorge Coelho was resigned as a minister of social equipment because he had received information in his cabinet that pointed to the fragility of the bridge of Entre-os-Rios, Manuel Alegre counterattacks: “I have never heard, no one has ever spoken in such a thing. He did that in a decent act, in a pure act“.
Regarding a possible dismissal of the mayor of Lisbon, who is a recipient to the position in the municipal elections of 12 October, Manuel Alegre retaliated: “I do not ask for resignation, this is a problem of his consciousness”.
Coins refuses to have missed the truth
The mayor of Lisbon declined the idea of lacking the truth when he said that former minister Jorge Coelho resigned after the fall of the bridge of entrepreneurials because he had prior knowledge of problems.
“I didn’t miss the truth. […] I didn’t want to offend the honor of Jorge CoelhoI wanted to honor the honor of Jorge Coelho and the life of Jorge Coelho, because he had the political courage at the right time, ”said Carlos Coins, in statements to journalists after the meeting of the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon.
At the end of the meeting, which rejected the censorship motion of arrives to Carlos Coisthe Mayor of Lisbon said that “never” the Camaario executive received information about some problem in the Glory Elevator and stated that “it is not true” that this equipment has recorded an increase in passengers.
