Exams: Block accuses PSD and CDS of “obstaculizing transparency”

José Manuel Pureza spoke to journalists at the BE national headquarters in Lisbon, about the probable feasibility this Friday, with the announced votes in favour of the PS and the Aquida benches, the bloquist proposal of parliamentary committee of inquiry to the problems in digitizing the evaluation of national examinations.

The bloquist leader considered that the constitution of this committee “has ensured viability” and argued that, “progressing without the approval of the government parties”, it is clear that “PSD and CDS-PP continue to hinder the transparency of chaos in national examinations”.

Purity stated that the “Parliament asked and had no answer” about the problems in the examinations, giving as examples the lack of clarification regarding the compensation of the affected families, the computer records and the hiring of the evaluation platform and an external consultant.

He also argued that this inquiry is necessary because the “Government statements did not resist the facts”, stating that they were accounted for by the Block “37 official guarantees that were denied by reality, some in days, others even in hours”.

Among these statements denied, Purez highlighted the words of the Minister of Education, Fernando Alexandre, when he said he did not receive any report on the pilot project digitizing the evaluation carried out in 2025.

“ Today we know three things: it was the Secretary of State himself who requested these reports from the exam coordinators, the reports identified precisely the failures that had to be repeated in 2026 [...] and we also know that several of these coordinators resigned from missions that were confirmed by the Ministry itself ", detailed.

For the leader of the bloc, it is no longer a question of “a divergence of political appreciation”; it is a “true question before the organs of sovereignty that oversees the government, the Assembly of the Republic” that “only a committee of inquiry can resolve”.

For this reason, he called on parties to “vote in favour of guaranteeing” what he called “irresponsible experience” will never happen again.

“ To the students, to the families, to the staff, to the teachers who lived this summer, we say: the country heard you and now Parliament will investigate. And wherever there are responsibilities, they will all be cleared up to the end. And this is the guarantee we want to leave”, emphasized.

Asked whether he is afraid of any amendments to vote this Friday that make the proposal unfeasible, Purity replied that “do not conceive amendments to the commitment already publicly announced”.

On the extension of his appeal to government parties, the bloquist leader said that this is a ‘call for democratic transparency’ and that ‘all parties represented in Parliament are faced with this challenge’.

José Manuel Purez also refused that this committee should be used to scrutinize the lack of vacancies in public schools that have been known in recent days, stressing that these initiatives have a “very defined objective” and the survey will focus on “the verification of responsibility for what happened in national examinations”.

It will also be evaluated in this committee, he added, “the shock waves” of what he considers to be a “dismantling” policy of the Ministry of Education carried out by the current Government.