President Chegi said this Thursday that the party will ask the Court of Auditors to analyze the requests of the previous government to companies such as NAV or Águas de Portugal for the payment of emergency dividends.
“Given the seriousness of the facts, we are going to contact the Accounts Chamber, and we will formally expose the Accounts Chamber to analyze the situation with these dividend distributions and conduct an analysis of their legality – and I accept everything I say – and even about potential criminal offenses that are involved here,” he said.
Speaking to reporters at the Assembly of the Republic, André Ventura commented on the news that the previous Finance Minister, Fernando Medina, asked companies such as Águas de Portugal or NAV to provide additional money to the state shareholder at the end of last year, with the aim of reducing the public debt.
“There is one fact that seems particularly serious to me: the Socialist Party government, led at the time by António Costa, demanded the distribution of dividends, promising that it would increase the capital by exactly the same amount that year,” he said.
The leader of Chega considered that “the actions seem politically serious, they seem to be quite serious management actions” and stated that “it is questionable whether it is in accordance with the law that this happened under such conditions.”
“And therefore the Accounts Chamber has the right to comment on this,” he emphasized.
Andre Ventura accused the last government of “accounting and quantitative makeup.”
President Cegi also criticised the reaction of the PS Secretary General, who stressed that “the PS government has left a good budgetary and financial position.”
Ventura accused Pedro Nuno Santos of “irresponsibility”.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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