Chega will propose setting up a commission of inquiry into the Internal Security Annual Report (RASI) and wants parliament to investigate whether the government has “interfered” with published data that the party says it does not trust.
“We are going to ask parliament to investigate and therefore we will create a commission of inquiry into the published RASI, because this idea that is published every year that crime is decreasing is not consistent with the news that everyone is returning home,” said Andre Ventura at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Lisbon.
The president of Chega indicated that this commission of inquiry “will have the aim of investigating the production of crime data in Portugal, therefore the various RASI reports” over “the last decade”.
The party wants to identify “their authors, the methodology used and their dissemination”, as well as to investigate “whether the government interfered in the preparation of these reports or not.”
“In particular, what role did the various interior ministers play in the preparation of these reports and whether there were signs of manipulation in this,” the president of the far-right party added.
According to André Ventura, the proposal to establish a commission of inquiry will be submitted to the Assembly of the Republic “by Friday”.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with the National Police Union and the United Police Union, President Chegi said that he had a “deep” distrust of the reported crime data in Portugal and stated that he also “systematically sees that the population does not trust these reports.” , but noted that he did not want to “throw unfounded suspicions on any organization.”
However, he defended that “something is wrong, or the reports are being manipulated, or the numbers are fabricated, or there are extrapolations being made in the news that don’t exist.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
