Had these prosecutors and investigators already conveyed their position to Amadeu Guerra? If so, you would certainly agree. And if you didn’t agree, why? Is that why you decided to do it through the newspapers? In this case, it will mean that there are currents in the MP, apparently in the majority or, at least, with power, with their own agenda in addition to that of the Attorney General. That put pressure on you externally. The opposite of what he defined when he took office.
In fact, Amadeu Guerra also made his small contribution when, in an interview with Nascer do Sol, published on September 19, he revealed that additional information had been requested from the head of Government. It was enough for the topic to return to the public square with Montenegro having to publicly say that it would send them “as quickly as possible”, and several newspapers also guarantee that it has not yet delivered them.
The central question is just one: was the option for a preventive investigation instead of a criminal investigation the best option from the start? If it was to protect the procedural reserve, it clearly didn’t work. If it was to postpone an inevitable decision, what was the reason?
When the suitability of the head of the Government is at stake, perhaps it would have been more effective to have immediately moved forward with a comprehensive investigation, which would have allowed the authorities to access all the necessary documentation without depending on the rate of collaboration of the target person himself.
An investigation not only into Spinumviva, but that would also bring together in a single process everything that had already been collected about the suspicions surrounding Montenegro’s house in Espinho. All this fog surrounding a prime minister is painful, it is not healthy for democracy and we know well who takes advantage.