The Director of Police Portuguese national resigned from his post Friday, November 22, after a year marked by excesses of officials of law enforcement involved Thursday night in a protest against the protest policy government austerity.
These incidents occurred during a demonstration outside parliament attended by several thousand police officers, gendarmes and other officials of the security forces in civilian clothes. Some of them have forced the security fence erected by their colleagues in uniform and briefly occupied the access stairs to the National Assembly.
This behavior “absolutely unacceptable”, said the interior minister Miguel Macedo in a statement broadcast Friday night on television. “What happened is therefore an exception and will not happen again”, he has insured. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho also stated that the incidents of Thursday “would not have happened”.
INCIDENTS “PARTICULARLY SERIOUS”
Despite numerous rallies before Parliament since the Portugal is subjected to a program of drastic fiscal austerity, this is the first time that protesters managed to force the police cordon at the foot of the grand staircase.
By Thursday evening, the media had reported a local attitude “tolerant” of the police towards their comrades who were demonstrating against the new austerity measures planned by the project budget in 2014, marked by severe cuts in wages and pensions of officials.
The interior minister said further that he had convened Friday morning the director of the National Police, Paulo Gomes Valente, whom he did know that it was necessary to draw conclusions from these incidents “particularly serious”.
”National Director immediately submitted his resignation and I accepted”, he has said confirming the name of his successor,
For its part, Anibal Cavaco Silva President had called for “Serenity”, while the Socialist opposition has asked to hear the Minister of the Interior in Parliament. Highly contested, the 2014 budget will be submitted Tuesday to the final vote in Parliament, where the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority.
Portugal: The Police Chief Resigns After Protest
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