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The President of the Government, António Costa, said this Sunday that his presence in the Committee of Honor of Luís Filipe Vieira, who is going to run again for the presidency of Benfica, is “an issue that has nothing to do with political life” . Even so, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, wants to talk to him about it.
During a visit to Alcoutim, this Sunday in the Algarve, journalists asked the president: “I know you are a fervent supporter of Sporting Clube de Braga. Yes António Salvador [presidente do Braga] If you applied tomorrow, would you agree to join your honor committee? ”, Quotes Public.
Marcelo replied: “It is a subtle way of asking my opinion on the position of the Prime Minister regarding the Benfica elections. What I know is through the media and what I heard was the Prime Minister’s explanation given in the media. I’ll only know more in the audience [com Costa] in a few days “, said.
Costa declines to comment on the support for Vieira. “It is an issue that has nothing to do with political life”
The President of the Republic also said that “what is at stake here is a specific situation, which involves a head of a sovereign body, a soccer club, an electoral act of a soccer club, in certain circumstances, in a political and political context. it also determines jurisdiction ”. “There are many components to making an abstract theory,” he said.
As for TVI, at night, he clarified that what he knows, he knows only through the media, so he will not make “speculations.”
I did not have the opportunity to speak to the Prime Minister on the matter. I may or may not speak later, that is, because there is always a weekly report on Thursday, there is an audience in Belém for the Prime Minister, ”he said.
Once again asked by TVI about whether he would be part of the honor committee of a candidate for the presidency of a club – António Salvador, Sporting de Braga – now that he has a political position, he replied: “It is a clever way of asking the same question. the same way. As my idea is not to comment, if I answered I would be doing the opposite of what I said: I am not going to comment ”.
