Ventura convinced that 3rd will obtain the MAI's commission of inquiry

ANDm statements at the entrance to a debate on security in Porto, the deputy insisted, on the controversy around the Minister of Internal Administration that “no one can be above the law, nor Luís Neves, nor any other”.

“ I also understand, and I have had the opportunity to tell the President of the Assembly of the Republic, that it is a bad sign and a bad principle, when we start to obstruct once, twice, three times, a request that is potent and that is a power of a parliamentary group. So I said we were going to try and we went and I will tomorrow [saturday] give more clarification about this which I hope can now be definitively admitted and that we can get to work next week”, said.

Continuing in the polemics and asked about the investigation into the assault on the office of the Ache in Parliament, André Ventura said he wants “to find out once and for all who did this”.

“ Who entered the parliamentary office, who vandalized it, and who burned down the headquarters in Évora and also who walked and is sending threats to the parliamentary group of the Aquira. Therefore, everything that helps, I think it is a positive point for this”, he added on the investigation.

Asked about the mistrust of the cabinet robbery, the chief of the Aquista replied: “I think that the opposition parties, as they no longer have anything to attack us, cannot attack the proposals, are growing every day. Some chose violence, as seen and as seen every day, others opt for enjoyment and derision. I live very well with it”.

About the support package announced on Thursday by the Prime Minister, the president of Aquisa insisted that “the great effort that needs to be made for families and businesses is (...) to significantly lower fuel prices”.

“ We have a new increase scheduled for the beginning of next week. I think it is fair to say that the thing is becoming absolutely unsustainable,” he warned the Member, who said he still hoped that the PS would join the Aquira and approve the party’s proposal, in discussion scheduled for the next 24th, and allow the VAT on fuel to drop, challenging the Socialists to put the “partidarist aside”.

The Government approved on Thursday EUR 38 million in support of the sectors most affected by fuels, the decrease in IRS rates from 1st to 6th grades and the extraordinary supplement that will be awarded to pensioners who receive up to EUR 1,611,39.

At the press conference in which he announced the deliberations of the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister defended the policy pursued by the Government to support fuel and increase the cost of living, refusing to exchange it for “threatful and uncoordinated measures” that could “reissue tragedies”.