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The President of the Republic does not clarify why he refused to join Salvador’s commission of honor in Braga in 2017
The President of the Republic declined to comment because he refused, in 2017, to join the commission of honor of António Salvador, considering that comparisons can be made with the support that the prime minister gave to the candidacy of Luís Filipe Vieira.
“I have nothing more to say than I have already said. And therefore, in this matter, I have nothing to add to what I said. I knew how I knew, in the circumstance that I knew, through the media, and by So much I have nothing to comment on this reality, on what I already said ”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, when journalists asked him if he had already spoken with António Costa about this matter.
Asked about the reasons that led him to refuse to join, in 2017, the honor committee of the president of Braga, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, refused to comment on his decision, for fear of comparisons with the case of António Costa.
“I have nothing to say, because what I say would be an indirect way of saying something about the subject that I do not want to talk about, because everything I say would serve, in one sense or another, to make comparisons or establish differences. Now, mine is precisely not to comment on it, “he said.
The Observer said on Monday that the invitation to the President of the Republic arrived when he was already in office, having justified at that time that he could not accept due to the position he held.
In 2013, when he was still a political commentator, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had joined the honor committee for António Salvador’s candidacy.
On Sunday, the President of the Republic had already refused to comment on the support given by Prime Minister António Costa to the candidacy of Luís Filipe Vieira for the presidency of Benfica, claiming that he had not yet spoken with the Prime Minister.
Apart from a visit to the house of Martim Longo, in the municipality of Alcoutim, and at the insistence of journalists to comment on what he would do, in a hypothetical case, if Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa himself wanted to support someone for the presidency of his club, the head of State, answered again that “he did not want to comment on anything.”
On Monday, António Costa once again defended that his support for the re-election of the Benfica president “strictly nothing” has to do with his life or political functions.
“All the more reason not to mix my responsibilities as a political agent in any way with things that strictly have nothing or to do with my life or political functions,” he said as he left a visit to the high school. de Benavente, marking the first day of the start of the school year, this time in the context of a covid-19 pandemic.
The Head of Government preferred to express himself “150% concentrated” on the issue that brought him to that school and avoided answering more questions about his inclusion in the honor committee of the candidacy of the current “incarnate” president, Luís Filipe Vieira. involved in various legal processes.
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