This Thursday, Chega’s president asked the prime minister to assess whether Fernando Medina could continue as finance minister after what he called “repeated lies” about the grounds for the resignation of the former TAP chief executive.
“We are asking the prime minister to consider very carefully, for the hundredth time, whether Fernando Medina can continue to be finance minister after repeatedly lying to the country,” Andre Ventura said in parliament.
This is the opinion that allegedly served as the basis for the dismissal of the TAP chief executive for a good reason, which Fernando Medina said this Thursday that it does not exist, after the government acknowledged its existence through the ministers of the President and Parliament. Affairs.
Chega’s leader believed that António Costa should “tell the country about the chaos reigning in his government in connection with the TAP case.”
“The prime minister can avoid this scenario, but he cannot go away for long, because it is his closest ministers who systematically lie and in this case are caught lying,” he stated, concluding that the opinion that Fernando Medina had originally said that he exists, “it just doesn’t exist.”
Ventura believes that “the government today assumed it lied” and that “the Treasury Secretary lied to the country and should be held accountable.”
The “third grotesque situation” pointed out by MP do Cheg was that “the government allows the public dismissal of two high-ranking public managers, with no legal protection other than a report that was supposed to determine how the other person was dismissed.” that is, the dismissal and compensation paid to former Secretary of State Alexandra Reis for leaving TAP.
“As Minister Fernando Medina is well aware, an inspection report is never a legally valid ground for dismissal, it may be the first step for another to document and articulate this dismissal,” but there must be a rationale for dismissal from a high post in the state, he supported .
Andre Ventura said he instructed the lawyers who filed the people’s lawsuit against the state over TAP to make an amendment “to require Fernando Medina’s personal responsibility in this case.”
“If the state has to pay compensation” to the previous president and CEO of TAP, “it means that it has shown extreme negligence, gross negligence” and “it should be financially responsible because it is not the Portuguese who should pay,” he said. concluded.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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