The wife of the Minister of Agriculture of the Government of the Azores has resigned from the post of director of services won by public tender under her husband’s tutelage, citing the “false suspicion of privilege” that was presented today at the Lusa desk is revealed, rejects.
“I am not attached to positions or leadership. I am attached to my professional prestige. For him, and for him alone, I relinquish the position I have been applied for by the league, as I have not yet accepted the nomination nor the term of office,” Fernanda Ventura told Lusa news agency.
In a written statement, the zootechnical engineer adds that her professional career “has always been guided by the values of loyalty, dedication, competence and pride” and argues that that was “not an appointment of personal or political confidence”.
On December 27, the Government Gazette published the appointment of Fernanda Ventura as Director of Investment and Competitiveness Support Services, integrated into the Regional Directorate for Rural Development, under the supervision of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Government of the Azores (PSD/CDS -PP/ PPM), led by António Ventura.
The appointment comes after a public competition, in which the jury found that Fernanda Ventura had the “requisite profile for the performance of the functions inherent in the position,” according to the order.
Fernanda Ventura, who has been a senior technician at the Regional Directorate of Rural Development since October 20, 2010, says she has “never mixed her personal or institutional life with the impartiality and impartiality” of her professional decisions.
The Dairy Technology specialist “rejects any innuendo or character attacks” regardless of “whoever they are”, insisting that “she has never had any interest or motivation in a political career”.
“I believe in the republican principle that no one should be favored or favored by race, sex, creed or affiliation. The same principle I defend, and I also believe, with the same intensity, that no one should be harmed for the same reasons.”, he points out on top. .
According to him, the “character attacks” he was targeted “attack the normal lives of public administration professionals, who only intend to advance in their careers”.
“I do not accept that I am under false suspicion of privilege. No one will pay for the professional damage they attribute to me, but no one is or will be above my justice and image,” he insists.
On December 28, the Minister of Agriculture, António Ventura, in statements to RTP/Açores, defended that his wife “had access to a match like any Azores”, recalling that the procedure was “not limited to being the wife of a ruler or a serving politician”.
“My wife is a citizen, an Azorean like any other, and she applied for a public tender, with written and oral evidence. by the Social Democrat José Manuel Bolieiro, who took office in November 2020, after 24 years of PS administration .
On January 5, Chega demanded an explanation from the regional administration about the contours of this tender, for “a matter of transparency and clarification”, with the intention of knowing whether all phases and tender rules had been complied with without the intervention of the regional secretary.
The competition jury consisted of the regional directors of Agriculture and Forestry, the directors of the Agrarian Development Services of the islands of São Miguel and Terceira and the president of the Regional Institute of Agricultural Planning.
In addition to being a rural development technician, Fernanda Ventura was also a senior technician at the Institute for the Financing of Agriculture and Fisheries (from 1997 to 2010) and a Mathematics teacher in the third cycle of primary education (between 1996 and 2010). 1997).
Source: DN
