Luis Marques Mendes
André Ventura’s words about one of the rivals to the race for the presidency of the Republic. But Ana Gomes is nothing convinced with António Vitorino.
The President of the arrival accused Marques Mendes, his opponent in the race to Bethlehem, of representing “everything that is bad in politics” and having made a “exchange of favors” with the leader of the PSD.
“A Marques Mendes’s candidacy represents everything that is bad in politics. It represents the assignment to lobicism, the assignment to the interests of corridors and behind the scenes, the assignment to the rotting of the party system that has dominated Portugal for 50 years, ”he said André Ventura.
Ventura mentioned the fact that Marques Mendes had had a political commentary on SIC and accused him of taking advantage of this media exposure for his own benefit.
The Leader of the arrival also accused him of having done a according to the Prime Minister and PSD leader, Luís Montenegro, “so that both would withdraw mutual help from an advantageous political situation and the political-media use of a television space and weekly comment ”.
“Luís Marques Mendes played António Costa’s game when António Costa’s government was solid in the absolute majority and became Luís Montenegro’s biggest ally on television over the past few months, and now we have seen that the PSD government supports Candidacy of Luís Marques Mendes, ”he said.
Ventura claimed that “there was a Exchange of favors between Luís Marques Mendes and Luís Montenegro“, Considering that it is“ a promiscuity that cannot be accepted ”.
But on the other side …
… António Vitorino It has been accused – twice – not being a (eventual) ideal candidate for the presidency, precisely for having a past linked to the Lobism.
And these accusations come from within the PS. Ana Gomes I had said in S: “António Vitorino has a lot of cleverness and even a sense of humor. Also has a background, a past of lobbyist lawyer, Let’s say, which led to what, for example, the head of the Mário Soares Civil House, Dr. Alfredo Barroso, had a day said that this would be Business lobbyist in Belém. He himself also said it was a kind of equivalent of Daniel Proença de Carvalho, from PS. ”
Now at RTP, he repeated the message, the former presidential candidate recalled an investigation from the backstage of the Antonio Vitorino route, who “knows the corridors of power well. And so it is called to make bridges to make things happen. ”
The newspaper stressed the fact that Vitorino, as a partner of the Cuatrecasas law firm, received companies linked to Raul Morodoformer Spain ambassador involved in processes by Fiscal Fraud e laundering of capital. It was also paid for services to Portuguese consulting firms, one of them with extensions to Africa.
Being one “Epicenter of controversial operations“The former minister was linked to many operations that depended on government approvals. The business stood out between Portugal Telecom and Vivo, the dispute between Banco Santander and the Portuguese State, or the sale of the World Confidence. António Vitorino had financial interests in all processes.
