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Defense Minister would have difficulties, which at the time were very large, very strong. Only a man with the courage of Adelino Amaro da Costa could have taken over with the effectiveness with which he assumed the role of Minister of Defense at such an adverse and difficult as it was to move from the powers of the Council of the Revolution to the powers of a government ».

Asked to clarify the meaning of his statement, made in the explanation of vote on the report of the I Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry, in which it participated, according to which there was resistance from some entities to the work of the Commission", said:

  • What I can say is that the first resistance was a resilience to what could be consider Parliament's investigative competence, because investigative competence of Parliament emerged, for the first time, with autonomous power in relation to the judiciary. And therefore, the resistance was to what could be called the “judicial system", which that Parliament and the investigative function of a parliamentary committee of inquiry do not... (...) Portugal is a country of competences with the prerogatives of the respective competences and clash between powers. And therefore, the interest and public order of the work of a committee research was not well recognized and was considered as «there comes another politiquice!", a politiquice of politicians interfering with those who have the competence to effectively perform its functions with rechnicality. This was the first resistance. Then the political resistance within the majority itself, which demanded a need for political pacification, so as not to appear objective interferences that prevent the necessary pacification for what was later considered parliamentary work constitutional review. And therefore, this was also considered within the majority. as a passive resistance to the interest of developing investigative work of that Commission. Political contamination also cume later, as it was not possible to have a totally aseptic view of the causality necessary for the harmfUL event, because political imputations between the left and the righe began to be made. It's the first resistance that arises is from the entire left parliamentary component to interpret the functioning of the Commission as a throwing ball against the left itself. Not us we can forget about the violence that existed in the years before 1980 between whai you can call "left" and "right" in the so-called "hot summer". The Judiciary Police put in a strong crisis by the very way the Members of the Commission were going interrogating the agents responsible for the investigation, which, today, seen at the distance, I recognize that the verbalization of criticism in the confrontation of these investigative agents it was very violent, very critical, resented it, which is natural, and also made a refusal.

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(...) You will ask me: was there no approach to any military aspect? There wasn'ı! THE Commitee of Inquiry did not address any factualities thai could be related to the exercise of military power, and this means the complexity that existed in a Parliament that he intended to make a statement of a civil nature in the constitutional structures of the State ».

Asked to clarify what he meant by " political contamination of the investigation", he replied:

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Clarifying and contextualizing my statement, political contamination is based on the

moment when political power - and when I say "political power" I say "governmeni" - declares