The PSD president said today that the party will demand “total clarification” of the “strange” case involving the deputy secretary of state with the prime minister and former mayor of Caminha, which is under investigation by the prosecution. “We, in the PSD, will want total, total clarification about what has been made public and what is in fact strange and that makes it clear to us that citizens need to be reassured with the clarification that is being given,” he said. Luís Montenegro, during an intervention at the inauguration of the political commission of the Viana do Castelo district.
Luís Montenegro, who will launch the Sentir Portugal initiative on Monday in the municipality of Caminha, in the Viana do Castelo district, did not want to let the controversy surrounding the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs pass unnoticed by the Prime Minister and former President of the Câmara de Caminha, as it interview Miguel Alves gave to Jornal de Notícias and TSF is “anything but enlightening”.
“It’s very much in the sense of victimization, that is, but that’s not responding to anything, it doesn’t make anything clear. The Secretary of State doesn’t have to complain about being in the news, he has to complain about what he did or didn’t explain . We, in the PSD, are not going to exempt ourselves from playing our role of opposition, both at the municipal and national level, so that all this is understood and clarified. We’re just talking from a political point of view. Regardless of what happens legally. This is another forum in which we have no intervention, and we don’t want to have one,” he underlined.
At stake is the construction of a cross-border exhibition center in Caminha, in the Viana do Castelo district, a work that has not yet started after the preliminary contract between the promoter and the municipality was signed in 2020.
Público reported in the October 26 edition that the municipality of Caminha had made a “dubious advance” of 300,000 euros for the project in question, authorized by the now deputy secretary of state to the prime minister, when he headed the municipality.
The newspaper reported that the payment was made by the municipality in March 2021 to an unknown company and affiliated with businessman Ricardo Moutinho, an investor with an alleged falsified resume. The weekly Expresso also reported in its October 28 edition that: the company in question, Green Endogenous, SA, is part of an investment group “established locally”.
Source: DN
