The prime minister refused on Wednesday that the health minister’s situation as a company’s managing partner is “a matter” and that Manuel Pizarro is vulnerable as anyone who begins to hold public office “must make their adjustment”. “.
Speaking to journalists at the end of the ceremony marking the incorporation of the Republic, in Lisbon, António Costa believed that “the word fallen may have been misused a bit”.
“No, it’s not a case, it’s a problem that necessarily befalls any person who, while engaging in a private activity, when he switches to the pursuit of a public activity, must stop engaging in that private activity, and there are some that can be done in a minute, there are others that take two weeks,” he defended, refusing that this situation weakens Manuel Pizarro.
António Costa pointed out that “a person who has his activity and one day comes to the government should stop carrying out a series of activities”.
And he claimed that “there are people who just have an employment contract for someone else and leave this activity overnight, there are people who are alternates and just leave this activity overnight, who have a commercial company has, you need a week, two weeks to make your adjustment”.
And he indicated that, “as the Minister of Health has already announced, the deed has already been established” for the sale of a property that will allow the company’s dissolution process to be completed.
On Monday, following a report from TVI, Health Minister Manuel Pizarro said he was “aware” of the incompatibility of his position in government with the management of a health-related company, stressing that he had already started.” the process of its dissolution”.
“Aware that the exercise of functions as a minister is incompatible with the integration into for-profit legal entities, Manuel Pizarro, managing partner of the company “Manuel Pizarro – Consultadoria, Lda”, began the process of dissolution of the same , process not yet completed because it is necessary to proceed with the sale of a business asset of the company, a 38 m2 building [metros quadrados]based in Porto,” reads a statement sent to the editors.
According to the Ministry of Health, the deed is scheduled for “the first days of October”.
The president of the republic declined to comment on the specific situation on Tuesday, but believed that the incompatibilities with the exercise of government positions should cease once their existence is understood.
Source: DN
