The mechanism created by the Government after the blackout to improve crisis response is beyond the reach of parliamentary scrutiny. CORGOV – Government Operation and Response Center could not be evaluated by the blackout working group, which came up against confidentiality, according to the proposed final report to which PÚBLICO had access. With an underline over the “strong uncertainty and progressive degradation of communications”, the document proposes that the executive think of a mechanism for alerting the population “that does not depend exclusively” on commercial operators.
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