Caiado, just like Lula: "Let the chips fall where they may"
The congressman says that the DEM party has already suffered a loss and that it will spare no one. Regarding Demstenes' involvement with Cachoeira, he again echoes Lula's claims about the mensalão scandal: he knew nothing.
Goiás 247 - President Lula showed yesterday that he is not afraid of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the dangerous relationships between the racketeer Carlinhos Cachoeira and the political world. The CPI must be established, Lula said, "no matter who it hurts," he stated, as shows report from Brasil 247"Because 'no matter who it hurts,' let the CPI come," is also the opinion of federal deputy Ronaldo Caiado, a loyal partner of Senator Demóstenes Torres and president of the ailing DEM party in Goiás.
Caiado broke a silence of several days, but decided to speak. To journalist Jarbas Rodrigues Jr., editor of the Giro column in O Popular newspaper, he went straight to the point: “The DEM party has already suffered its loss. What had to happen to the party, happened. Now there are no limits. We will spare no one. Everyone involved with businessman Cachoeira will have to give explanations to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, including the governors. No matter who it hurts.”
Still in the column, Ronaldo Caiado guaranteed that he never suspected Demóstenes' involvement with businessman Carlinhos Cachoeira. “I would never have launched the senator for president of the Republic if I suspected this. I never had contact with this businessman; otherwise, he would have already appeared in telephone recordings. My greatest feeling is sadness. But this is a moment for overcoming this within the DEM party, the only party that took the necessary measures, even the most difficult ones. All the other parties welcomed those involved.”
Ironically, Caiado's "I didn't know" was basically the same answer Lula gave when questioned about the mensalão scandal. An answer always mocked by Demóstenes and, also, by Caiado.