Freire to the PT: there's no point in trying to overshadow the mensalão scandal.
The national president of the PPS party, federal deputy Roberto Freire, criticizes the national president of the PT party, Rui Falco, for calling on party members to expose the "mensalão farce."
PPS "However much the PT imagines minimizing and even overshadowing Lula's mensalão scandal with the Cachoeira CPI, it is an action doomed to failure, because that is a process that is about to be judged in the Supreme Federal Court." The statement is from Congressman Roberto Freire (SP), national president of the PPS, and was given in response to an action by the national president of the PT, Rui Falcão, who posted a video on the party's website calling on political parties and labor unions to mobilize to prevent an alleged "cover-up operation" of the CPI that would expose the "farce" of the mensalão.
“There’s no reason for the PT to imagine that the Supreme Court will abdicate its role as a branch of government,” said Freire, adding that the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) will be an instrument for investigating “the tentacles of organized crime within institutions and particularly the promiscuous relationships between the Brazilian executive branch and private companies, including the federal government.” In the congressman's assessment, “the PT president’s efforts to mobilize the country’s guilty conscience are pointless because the Mensalão scandal will be judged.”
Lula Museum
Regarding the so-called Museum of Labor and the Worker, which will be built in São Bernardo, in the ABC region of São Paulo, Freire stated that there would be no problem with the project if the money were not public. “Lula can build whatever museum he wants, as long as it's not with public funds; just as we condemned Sarney building a museum in Maranhão, we will obviously condemn Lula for building one wherever he does.”
Freire clarified: "that he does it with his own resources, his party's resources, with private resources; with public resources it is clearly inconceivable." According to the congressman, former president Lula, "not satisfied with having improperly used public resources in government, as in the mensalão scandal, continues to use them even after leaving office."