This Wednesday the PS proposed to sack the Secretary of State for Mobility, alleging a lack of transparency and ethics for receiving compensation to leave CP and then join the regulator.
This position was conveyed to journalists by Socialist MP Pedro Coimbra at a press conference in the Assembly of the Republic, in which he said that the PS also “seriously doubts” whether the compensation awarded to the Secretary of State complies with the law.
“We are faced with clear favoritism. We’re talking about taxpayer money and a public company. I think now is the right time for the Secretary of State, for the Minister responsible for [Miguel Pinto Luz]including the Prime Minister [Luís Montenegro]assess whether there are conditions for [Cristina Dias] remain in office, continuing to manage public money,” said the PS leader.
Pedro Coimbra also left the question: “Can we trust the morals and ethics of the Secretary of State?”
According to PS, Cristina Diaz moved from the KP administration to the regulatory organization “in a matter of days,” “roughly doubling her base salary.”
“And in a short time he was awarded compensation in the amount of 80 thousand euros. This process was carried out in record time, the board of directors was convened in an extraordinary manner, and compensation was awarded without any legal opinion and without any legal opinions. the company is undergoing some changes in human resources,” said Pedro Coimbra.
Pedro Coimbra took up these positions after this Wednesday Parliament heard the announcement of the Secretary of State for Mobility about her resignation from CP with a compensation of 80,000 euros to take over the duties of administrator of the Office of Mobility and Transport (AMT).
Questioning whether this situation with Cristina Diaz is equivalent or even less serious than that of former Socialist finance minister Alexandra Reis, who left TAP with half a million euros in compensation (not just 80 thousand euros), the leader Socialists said that this case, which affected the PS government, “has already been assessed and has had political consequences.”
“We are here assessing another case that has signs of lack of transparency, ethics and morality. And the PS has many doubts that it is based on legality,” he insisted.
The newspaper Correio da Manhã (CM) reported on April 19, after Cristina Dias was announced as Secretary of State for Mobility, that the current governor left the CP – Comboios de Portugal in July 2015 with compensation of about 80,000 euros to take on assumed the duties of the AMT administrator at the invitation of the PSD/CDS-PP government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.
According to the newspaper, he then received a salary and entertainment expenses at AMT of about 13,440 euros per month, almost double the 7,210 euros he received at CP.
On the same day that the CM reported this case, Presidential Minister António Leitan Amaru said that the governor received compensation for 18 years of work at CP and that the “lesser of the two salaries” was even applied to her being considered as a senior technical specialist. rather than as an administrator, the position she held when she left the company.
Leitan Amaro also said that this is compensation “equal to almost 400 workers and in a program open for four years, with rules applicable to everyone.”
On 22 May, former director of the Railway Equipment Maintenance Company (EMEF), Francisco Fortunato, who denounced the case in 2015, said in Parliament that “no standards were met” in the process and that the compensation paid to CP was “an act of mismanagement. harmful to the public interest and carried out in complete disregard of existing regulations and the austerity policies then applied by the government to the majority of workers.”
On May 29, also at a hearing of the Committee on Economy, Public Works and Housing, former CP President Manuel Cairo, who held that position while Cristina Díaz was administrator and left the company, denied that he knew in advance about the departure of the current Secretary of State to AMT.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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