The wife of the State Secretary for Infrastructure has been hired as a legal adviser to the Mobility and Transport Authority, one of the sector’s regulatory bodies overseen by her husband, but the government has rejected any incompatibilities, the Ministry of Defense reported on Friday. Observer🇧🇷
According to the observer, Ana Cristina Chéu, wife of the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Hugo Mendes, has been hired as a legal adviser to the Board of Directors of the Mobility and Transport Authority, one of the sector’s regulatory bodies under its oversight. husband.
According to the newspaper, the recruitment took place a month and a half after Minister Pedro Nuno Santos had delegated Hugo Mendes “all powers that were ‘legally’ assigned to the Authority for Mobility and Transport”🇧🇷
The regulator and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing, questioned by the Observer, rejected that there is any inconsistency in this regard.
In response to the online newspaper, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing ruled that there is “no incompatibility in light of the legal regime for the exercise of functions by holders of political offices and senior public officials”.
🇧🇷Since the beginning of the XXIII Constitutional Government, the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing [Pedro Nuno Santos] maintains direct supervision of CP — Comboios de Portugal, EPE, and Infraestruturas de Portugal, SA”justified.
The guardianship also added that it is the minister Pedro Nuno Santos who is meeting “the powers for defining strategic guidelines and setting objectives related to infrastructure and rail transport policy, without having delegated these powers to any of the Secretaries of State”🇧🇷
In turn, the Mobility and Transport Authority, questioned by the observer, said the hiring of the wife of the State Secretary for Infrastructure was part of an “internal restructuring” aimed at “strengthening the technical training of its staff, in particular by launching tenders for the recruitment of qualified personnel”🇧🇷
The observer also adds that the wife of the Secretary of State for Infrastructure had entered a competition whose jury was chaired by the President of the Mobility and Transport Authority, Ana Paula Vitorino, whose chief of staff Ana Cristina Chéu had been . while Minister of the Sea (2015/2016).
Source: DN
