The national coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE), José Manuel Pureza, considered this Thursday, December 18, that the Spinumviva case is a story from which Prime Minister Luís Montenegro comes out badly, but also the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Amadeu Guerra.
“It’s a story from which no one comes out well. A prime minister who didn’t account for the country about having a company in his dining room and who turned the judicial investigation into a political game, dragging the country into elections because of this political game, comes out badly,” he highlighted.
Speaking in Coimbra, José Manuel Pureza also stated that the Attorney General of the Republic Amadeu Guerra “does not come out well” from the Spinumviva case.
“After an investigation, or as part of an investigation that took place for months, it pre-announced its closure with a Christmas gift, anticipating that it would be in these days that this would happen”, he added.
According to the BE coordinator, it is now important to bring the political debate back to the center.
“This case had a judicial outcome, but its political dimension remains very much alive and the Left Bloc will, of course, not fail to criticize a prime minister who, from a political point of view, made serious mistakes to the detriment of the country”, he concluded.
The preventive investigation into Spinumviva, a company owned by the prime minister’s family, was archived, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) announced on Wednesday.
In a note published on the website of the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP), the Public Prosecutor’s Office justifies the archiving with the fact that there was no “news of the commission of a criminal offense”.