The current Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, Antonio Mendonca Mendeswill the new assistant secretary of state to the prime minister, the presidency of the republic put forward in an official note. The Fiscal Affairs portfolio will remain vacant for the time being until Finance Minister Fernando Medina finds someone to replace him.
Mendonça Mendes succeeds Miguel Alves, who resigned on 10 this month when it became known that he was charged with financial crimes committed as mayor of Caminha.
in economics, Minister António Costa Silva replaces the Secretaries of State for Economy, João Neves, and for Tourism, Rita Marques, with Pedro Cilínio and Nuno Cardona Fazenda de Almeida respectively🇧🇷
Neves and Rita Marques had left the team of former economy minister Pedro Siza Vieira and had long been on a collision course with minister António Costa Silva
The inauguration will take place in Belém on Friday.
Only the Secretary of State for the Sea, José Maria Costa (former mayor of Viana do Castelo), remains in Costa Silva’s original team.
Born in Covilhã, Nuno Cardona Fazenda de Almeida is a PS deputy and holds a PhD in regional and urban planning after working with Cotrim de Figueiredo at Turismo de Portugal. In an interview with the website Os230.pt, which introduces the delegates to the Assembly, he stated that “tourism is undoubtedly a strategic sector for the country” and guarantees that he does not follow the statement that “we are overloaded with tourism”. Also coordinator of the PS parliamentary group in the Committee on Environment, Energy and Spatial Planning, the socialist deputy elected by the constituency of Castelo Branco was director of the Community Program Management Department of Turismo de Portugal and expert coordinator responsible for the regional Tourism Agenda of the North, according to Os 230.
The new head of portfolio leaving João Neves also has experience in the area. On the Link to Leaders page, which creates a network of business angels, private equity and venture capital projects, among others, Cilínio is presented as a “professional with more than 20 years of experience in evaluating investment projects, acquired in various positions at IAPMEI and at AICEP”, with extensive business experience. In more than a decade at IAPMEI, the new Secretary of State will have been closely associated with portfolios of “incentives to invest in innovation, qualification and R&D in companies, where he implemented initiatives to redesign business processes, supported by the dematerialization and creation of electronic channels of interaction”. It will be this knowledge that he brings to the Economy portfolio, in times of urgent growth that require the ability to attract business and investment, but also the need to accelerate the PRR. According to Link to Leaders, Pedro Cilínio holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (Instituto Superior Técnico), a Masters in Industrial Management (Faculty of Science and Technology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa), an Executive MBA from INDEGISCTE and also a Masters in Business Management from ISCTE-IUL with a thesis in Innovation Management.
Source: DN
