Beja: Prime Minister "escapes" the questions of journalists in BA11.
The Prime Minister yesterday refused to talk to journalists, after completion of a flash visit to Air Base (BA) 11, in Beja, where during the "Lusitano 2016," a joint exercise of the three branches of the Armed Forces.
Ant贸nio Costa, He was accompanied by the Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence, General Secretary of Homeland Defense, Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces and the PS deputy elected by Beja, and after talking to the military present in the exercise (na photos), He left the hangar BA 11 towards a bus that transported to another building of the military unit.
Although surrounded by many military, Prime Minister avoided any question, after having busted another controversy surrounding the Government leads.
Earlier on Tuesday the electronic newspaper Observer, He informed that Ant贸nio Costa deputy in the government, "said a fake bachelor". The newspaper revealed that in order signed by the Prime Minister, Rui Roque "appears with a degree" in Electrical Engineering, University of Coimbra, but, "I never finished the course and lacks several chairs".
After the scandals of salaries and delivery of exemption from the income statement by the managers of the Caixa Geral de Dep贸sitos, that are still give much to talk, this "bomb", back to mind the "If Relvas" in Passos Coelho Government.
But the defense minister was also "infected" by refusing to talk to the media, asked to remain present in BA 11. When asked by a journalist "the minister spoke", Azeredo Lopes, very muddled answer: "who, who, I minister?"And hastily got into the bus of the ministerial delegation.
The exercise that Ant贸nio Costa watched, tests the operational capacity and certification of the forces involved and ending on Friday and exercising the rescue of citizens and of Portuguese companies, across borders.
Addressing the military, Prime Minister explained that the action that saw "can be real and must be prepared to act where there is a citizen or a national company and return safe and sound", concluded.
After lunch at BA11, the delegation will return to Lisbon aboard the helicopter EH-101 Merlin Portuguese Air Force.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
