Chega will be compulsorily summoning TAP’s executive chair to parliament to explain Alexandra Reis’ compensation and ask the Transparency Commission for guidance on the “conflict of interest” of the Secretary of State for the Environment.
The party chairman announced this during a press conference at the party headquarters in Lisbon.
André Ventura insisted that “some questions still need to be answered” about the case of compensation for Alexandra Reis when she left the airline, pointing out that “Chega had no choice but to use its potestative right (with coercive force) to the CEO of TAP to answer these questions”.
Chega’s leader recalled that Christine Ourmières-Widener’s hearing proposal by the PS had “failed” and said he regretted that the party had to “use the potestative right to fulfill the task which is the first duty of parliament and duty should be first’. of the government, that of parliament to ask for clarification, that of the government to give clarification to those who oversee”.
Chega wants to summon TAP’s executive chairman “as a matter of urgency” to the Budget and Finance Committee and hopes the hearing “could take place as early as next week or even this week.”
“Hopefully it comes with answers and not the same conversation as [o ministro das Finanças] Fernando Medina took it to parliament,” he stressed, pointing out that “TAP has a special duty of vigilance, but also clarification, since it is taxpayers’ money that is currently being used there.”
Chega’s leader wants to see an answer “whether there were more cases with similar compensation or of this type”, whether Alexandra Reis was “sacked or fired” and also “why did she leave TAP and why was this compensation paid to her”.
Having seen that the request for a potestative hearing from the former Secretary of State for Finance has been rejected, as the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Republic only allow this figure to be used for members of the government and not for those who no longer being a member, André Ventura emphasized that “TAP is currently a publicly traded company, a company with mainly public capital, and therefore its directors can be summoned to parliament for investigation”.
With regard to the new Secretary of State for the Environment, Chega, after proposing the parliamentary hearing of Hugo Pires, announced that it will ask the Commission for Transparency and Statute of Deputies to “rule out” on the matter.
Ventura considered that “the conflict of interest already seemed obvious, within the framework of relations with the waste trade”, and that Hugo Pires had “omitted from his parliamentary register of interests the ownership of part of a company’s share capital”.
Source: DN
