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José Sócrates tries to interrupt the trial of a second case related to the Marquês Operation, arguing that he is being judged twice for the same money laundering crimes, but his arguments have already been rejected on previous occasions. #OperaçãoMarquês #JoséSócrates #Corrupção (translated)

The theater of the absurd has opened. The same facts are being discussed in two trials. It is a violence and an unprecedented arbitrariness. The State provides the guarantee [of defense] that the citizen will not be judged twice for the same facts, so the trial of the secondary case cannot happen, said José Sócrates. #OperaçãoMarquês #JoséSócrates #Julgamento (translated)

The trial of former Prime Minister José Sócrates was suspended just five minutes after it began due to questions from the defense about the right to a fair trial, claiming that he and Carlos Santos Silva are being judged for duplicate facts in different proceedings. #OperaçãoMarquês #JoséSócrates #Julgamento (translated)

prepares to begin a new trial about facts that are already under discussion In a statement sent on Sunday night to Lusa, Sócrates said that the court "is preparing to begin a new trial about facts that are already under discussion" in another trial. #OperaçãoMarquês #JoséSócrates #Corrupção (translated)

José Sócrates and Carlos Santos Silva are on trial for money laundering, while the corruption crimes related to the Marquês Operation continue to be debated in court, leading Sócrates to criticize what he considers to be state violence. #OperaçãoMarquês #JoséSócrates #Corrupção (translated)

Vitorino confirmed to the court that the then Minister of Public Works, Mário Lino, questioned her in March 2006 about the relationship between Refer and O2 (a company owned by Manuel Godinho), which was described by Lino, according to Vitorino, as "friends of the PS," and that there were people in the party concerned about this situation, identifying among these people Armando Vara. #OperaçãoMarquês #Sócrates #AnaPaulaVitorino (translated)

There was another meeting, I believe initiated by Mário Lino, on the occasion of the global economic crisis of 2008, in which, under the guidance of the European Union, investments should be accelerated. And the minister, within his competencies, asked us to analyze the possibility of accelerating some investments, namely high-speed, the Beira Baixa Line... This analysis was made and the minister is likely to have asked the prime minister to meet technically with us and with engineer Carlos Fernandes. However, in the session this Thursday of the trial of Operation Marquês, at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, the former Secretary of State for Transport Ana Paula Vitorino — who held the position in José Sócrates' first government from 2005 to 2009 — refuted any instruction from the main defendant of the trial. #OperaçãoMarquês #Sócrates #AnaPaulaVitorino (translated)

The spokesperson for Livre, Jorge Pinto, advocates for a gradual reduction of the standard VAT rate from 23% to 21%, arguing that this would benefit the middle class and citing the permanence of this rate since the governments of Sócrates. #IVA #Economia #PartidoLivre (translated)

Filipe Baptista, former Secretary of State under José Sócrates, will be the new lawyer for the former prime minister in the trial of the secondary case of Operation Marquês, after obtaining a conviction against the Portuguese state to pay a compensation of 15 thousand euros to Sócrates in a previous administrative process. #OperaçãoMarquês #JoséSócrates #FilipeBaptista (translated)

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde argued that the average voter would never support a party that aimed to fix Spain, no matter how attractive, eloquent, virtuous, intelligent, skilled in negotiation, brave, prudent, persuasive, shrewd, strategic, tenacious, pragmatic, diplomatic, integral, cultured, and aware of its limits their candidate was. To illustrate these qualities, he mentioned Cary Grant, Lincoln, De Gaulle, Churchill, Adenauer, Leonidas, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, Talleyrand, Caesar, Shackleton, Bismarck, Metternich, Thomas More, Goethe, and Socrates. He added that, in his opinion, fixing Spain would require telling voters that many problems would not be solved by demanding more from others, but by each giving up something. He also stated that he was beyond remedy. #España #Política #Voto (translated)