http://www.publico.pt/portugal/jornal/comissao-politica-do-psd-chumba-candidatura-do-exinspector-goncalo-amaral-a-camara-de-olhao-293242Comissão política do PSD chumba candidatura do ex-inspector Gonçalo Amaral à Câmara de Olhão
Sofia Rodrigues
28/01/2009 - 00:00
The National Political Committee of the PSD decided yesterday to veto the name of Gonçalo Amaral, former Inspector of Judicial Police, candidate for the City of Olhão.
PSD confirms that the organ so that the president's party, Manuela Ferreira Leite, had said in an interview with RTP - which spoke out against the name of the former inspector, as a person who until recently was linked to justice. "Politicians can not create the impression that there is a promiscuity between politics and justice," explained Ferreira Leite two weeks ago.
Former inspector, retired from PJ since June 2008, was the choice of the district council of the PSD / Algarve to list head in Olhão (city of residence) and approved by the district.
The coordinator municipal committee decided to veto, however, the name of Gonçalo Amaral and submitted this proposal to the national policy committee, which accepted it. This decision will mean that the choice of another candidate process is triggered.
The leader of PSD-Algarve and member of Parliament, Mendes Bota, has vehemently defended the former inspector who led the initial phase of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann investigations.
Macarius to Faro
Last Saturday, Mendes Bota was the presentation of Amaral's book, Maddie, the Truth Lies in Loulé, next to the author. Asked at the time about whether there would be another alternate candidate, if the proposal were sinker by national political committee,
Mendes Bota said only that the book of Gonçalo Amaral was "made of facts" and that all that was in the book was "truth." Also during the end-of-week, Faro district council PSD approved by "unanimous" and "acclaim" the application Correia to farense authority.
Correia, currently president of Tavira Chamber, said Lusa that "welcomed" the will of the militants of PSD-Faro where was candidate to Faro, but preferred to refer to "later" more comments. At the meeting of the district council, Macarius said he had "some ideas" to solve the "medium and long term" "financial problems of the Faro local authority".
Just yesterday, the president of Faro Council, José Apolinario (PS), accused "someone" local PSD of having used a confidential document of the Court (TC) to make "political attack".
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One of the PSD sector understood deliver the document to the media," accused Apollinaris, in a press statement on the report in the Morning Post, which indicated that the CT detected "irregularities of more than 530,000 euros in ten additional contracts in construction from Faro athletics track. " with Lusa
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They're all as corrupt as each other. The guy who was elected instead of Amaral, former Mayor of Tavira, Jose Macario Correia, has been up to his neck in planning irregularities during his tenures in Tavira & Faro & was suspended from office.