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Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita will be heard this afternoon in Parliament on the death of a Ukrainian citizen at the SEF facilities. Cabrita was summoned to explain the activities of the Government during these nine months, but another controversy arose along the way after the meeting between the President of the Republic and the national director of the PSP.
The meeting was requested by Magina da Silva to offer the president a book on the history of the PSP. The day was defined by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and coincided with the moment when the minister is under pressure with various parties calling for his replacement. The hearing, scheduled for a Sunday afternoon, was published on the website of the Presidency of the Republic. The Government was informed of the meeting.
The conversation was not limited to the book on PSP and the President of the Republic addressed the hot topic of the moment. Upon leaving Belém, Magina da Silva revealed that she had proposed to the President of the Republic the “merger between PSP and SEF. The PSP is extinguished, the SEF is extinguished and a National Police appears ”.
Eduardo Cabrita immediately showed his displeasure with the national director of the PSP for having spoken of “an issue in which the Government is working, which directly involves the Prime Minister.” These matters, “with due respect, are not announced by the police,” said the minister, speaking to Lusa, a few hours after the meeting between the head of state and the national director of the PSD.
The national leadership of the PSP clarified, in a statement, that Magina da Silva “obviously did not intend to condition any ongoing restructuring of the internal security system, regretting that her statements were interpreted in that way.”
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was asked once again if Eduardo Cabrita can continue in office, but he limited himself to stating that the minister “is in office, he wants to remain in office” and that this is the first time. Minister who expressed “his complete confidence”.
“This is adrift”
The statements made by the PSP official intensified the controversy surrounding Minister Eduardo Cabrita. “This is adrift. The president discusses the problems of the SEF with the director of the PSP. The Minister of Internal Administration in fact no longer counts for the totobola, ”wrote Duarte Marques on social networks.
The Social Democratic deputy considers that “the way in which the Government wants to reform the security forces and services is precisely the opposite of what common sense would recommend: in a hurry, with a discredited minister, without reflection, without discussion, without time and under pressure from the media. In other words, everything backwards ”.
A national disgrace
The president of the CDS, Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, considers that the Minister of Internal Administration “has become a national disgrace.” For the centrist leader, the minister “ended up being surpassed by one of his subordinates, the national director of the PSP, who came to sentence the merger of SEF with PSP. Eduardo Cabrita did not respect himself and ended up losing the respect of those who were supposed to be tutors ”.
The CDS spoke out against the extinction of the SEF, which is only being considered to “try to save the skin of a minister who in reality is no longer a minister.”
Catarina Martins had already reaffirmed, on Sunday, that Eduardo Cabrita “lost the conditions for the place he occupies.”
All the parties, with the exception of the PS and the PS, argued that Eduardo Cabrita cannot remain in office. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended that “it is necessary to assess whether the protagonists who embodied the system that failed can be the same in the following period.”
The pressure cannot be greater, but the understanding in the Government and the PS is that the minister can continue. Eduardo Cabrita’s will is to remain in office and has the support of the Prime Minister. António Costa has already guaranteed that he maintains “total confidence” in the Minister of Internal Administration, because “he did what he had to do.”
