The PSD chairman said today that the Social Democratic parliamentary group will ask to hear the outgoing chairman of the National Innovation Agency (ANI) in parliament to find out what conditions she lacked to “continue her task”.
“Our parliamentary group will call the chairman, now resigned, of the National Innovation Agency to the Assembly of the Republic, because it is important for us to understand what is happening in an agency that is decisive for research and development in Portugal”, Luís Montenegro told journalists in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Guarda, after visiting a sheep and cattle breeder and participating in a meeting with farmers, as part of the “Sentir Portugal” initiative.
The president of ANI, Joana Mendonça, resigned on Monday in a letter addressed to the president of the board of directors of the General Assembly and minister of the economy, António Costa e Silva.
“Under Article 27 of the Statute of the Public Manager, I hereby present my resignation from the position of President of the National Innovation Bureau, ANI, as I believe that the conditions for my position and its functions are no longer met. practice,” Joana Mendonça wrote opening the document to which Lusa had access.
According to the leader of the PSD, “It is not customary for the responsible top of an agency like the Innovation Agency to resign and publicly assume that there are no conditions for continuing his task”.
“And it is important that Parliament, and through the country, knows exactly what conditions are missing in the implementation of its action,” said Luís Montenegro.
The capital of the National Innovation Agency is subscribed in equal shares by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, through FCT — Foundation for Science and Technology (50%), and by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, through IAPMEI (50 %).
The President of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, was elected this week in Guarda, the sixth district, under the “Sentir Portugal” initiative, carried out following the commitment he made at the 40th Congress to create a week per month in the different districts of the country.
The “Sentir Portugal” initiative of the President of the PSD was launched on Monday in the city of Guarda and will run through the different municipalities of the district until Friday, aiming to connect with local reality and initiate dialogue with citizens, families, municipalities and institutions. .
Source: DN
