Sunday, March 29, 2015

Unanimous parties on good work done by the committee – LUSA

The parties were satisfied with the work of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the management of BES and Espírito Santo Group (GES), stating that the commission away prejudices that could be the start of the parliamentary activity.

The Lusa news agency spoke with the five coordinators of the parties deputies – PSD, PS, CDS-PP, PCP and BE – the inquiry committee, at a time when the hearings are closed, and awaiting the final report, to be made by the deputy PSD Pedro Saraiva.

“I think all the groups were able to find a balance in the sense of responsibility, integrity, and establish the truth in this committee of inquiry . And [this] was done in an exemplary manner, with hard work, study, and political commitment “, he stressed Carlos Abreu Amorim, PSD coordinator on the committee.

Pedro Nuno Santos, coordinator of the PS, endorses the idea that “Members of the various parliamentary groups had the clear objective to establish the facts.”

“I think everyone was in this spirit,” he said, adding that the commission “had everything to go wrong, but the truth is that went well,” resulting in a “great victory of parliament and [in] contribution to the credibility of political activity. “

Mrs Cecilia Meireles, the CDS-PP coordinator, points out that the commission work” differently than usual, or of committees of inquiry or commissions in general “

The parties submits.” were rowing in the same direction:. everybody wanted to see what had happened there and that was a good sign “

To Michael James, PCP deputy party who proposed the committee, essential to retain this committee is that there was a knowledge “much deeper” – that came to the public -. a “monopoly” group as the GES

“The Portuguese had almost real-time opportunity to watch an autopsy of a monopolistic group and see how the system is in no way prepared to deal with these groups,” he told Lusa.

To Mariana Mortágua, only Member of the Left Bloc in committee, the fact that there are many “technical issues” in the commission attenuated the “political and ideological differences” of the parties.

“They were intense months,” continued Mrs, which to be alone to represent the Block said he had the “advantage” of focus information and not to separate “in several people, brains, heads,” which allowed “make some connections” between the hearings and heard personalities .

The last hearing of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the BES management and GES took place on Wednesday, and on April 29 will have to be completed the final report on the work.

The commission was proposed by the CFP – and unanimously approved by the parties – and had the first hearing on 17 November last year, with dozens of personalities been heard among members of the Holy Spirit family, business managers group, regulators, supervisors, auditors and politicians, among others.

The aim of the parliamentary work went through “investigate the practices of previous BES management, the role of external auditors and the relationship between BES and the set of member institutions of the GES of the universe, in particular the methods and vehicles used by BES to finance these entities. “

PTT / DN // ATR

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