The president of the Liberal Initiative stated that there is no complaint or complaint against João Cotrim de Figueiredo, criticizing the media for promoting what she classified as “free controversies”. The former president of the party, Rui Rocha, also guaranteed that he had never received any complaints during the period in which he led the IL.
The president of the Liberal Initiative (IL), Mariana Leitão, guarantees that there is no complaint or complaint against João Cotrim de Figueiredo.
“It is regrettable that politics has reached this point, and it is equally regrettable that the media, in search of free controversy, has abandoned doing its most basic work, to the point of considering easy slander as a fait accompli, even on serious accusations, without any type of evidence or proof”, he stated.
On the same day, the former president of the Liberal Initiative, Rui Rochaguaranteed that and indicated that the accusations arose during the period in which he led the party, which is why he felt the need to make a public statement about the case.
Cotrim de Figueiredo denies the complaint
A former IL parliamentary advisor shared on Sunday on her social network Instagram, in a restricted and non-public context, a publication through which she denounces having been
Following this, on Monday, given this information and access to the publication, journalists confronted the former IL leader who immediately denied this complaintas he did in the following days.
However, today, former advisor Inês Bichão, in a statement sent to the Lusa agency, said that the publication about alleged sexual harassment targeting Cotrim de Figueiredo was disseminated without your consentadding that
Meanwhile, presidential candidate Cotrim de Figueiredo accused the media of being “guilty and even accomplice” of the echo that received the complaint of sexual harassment by a former IL parliamentary advisor, maintaining that “in the last four days we have witnessed an authentic brutal character assassination.”
– With Lusa
