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IL welcomes Costa's hearing but does not want him at the European Council
The president of the Liberal Initiative (IL), Rui Rocha, today welcomed the hearing, by the Public Prosecution Service, of the former prime minister António Costa within the scope of Operation Influencer, but stressed that he does not recognise him as having the merit to preside over the European Council.
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In Braga, during a campaign action by IL for the European elections, Rui Rocha added that the party's criterion is not nationality, but rather merit and results.
"And we do not recognize merit in him [António Costa], after the governance he had in Portugal, with degraded public services, with the inability to make structural reforms, with a persistent situation of low wages, with a bureaucracy that is also linked to the ongoing legal process. All of this is the legacy of António Costa, we do not want this legacy for the European Union," he said.
Rui Rocha stressed that, in relation to positions, IL "never looks at nationality issues".
"This criterion of nationality has not even brought good experiences, Durão Barroso contributed very little to the European institutions and to Portugal, so I guess nothing at all. The criterion is merit and result," he reiterated.
Former Prime Minister António Costa was heard on Friday by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP) without having been constituted as a defendant in the Operation Influencer process.
For Rui Rocha, "justice is working".
"When justice works, it is always good (...). He was heard, it is good that he was heard, that he had the opportunity to clarify his vision of the facts, which I hope is that justice always works for everyone," said the liberal leader.
Operation Influencer led at the time to the arrest of Vítor Escária (António Costa's chief of staff), Diogo Lacerda Machado (consultant and friend of António Costa), the directors of the company Start Campus Afonso Salema and Rui Oliveira Neves, and the mayor of Sines, Nuno Mascarenhas, who were released after judicial interrogation.
There are also other defendants, including former Infrastructure Minister João Galamba, former president of the Portuguese Environment Agency Nuno Lacasta, former PS spokesman João Tiago Silveira and Start Campus.
The case is related to the project to build a data center in the industrial and logistics zone of Sines by Start Campus, the production of energy from hydrogen in Sines, and the exploration of lithium in the district of Vila Real, in Montalegre and Boticas.
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