Paulo Novais / Lusa
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro
Luís Montenegro summoned an Emergency Council of Ministers for this Saturday and a communication to the country about personal and political decisions about his family’s company. However, the company itself released some of its customers and activities.
About two hours after Luís Montenegro having announced an extraordinary council of ministers a communication to the country on personal and political decisions about the company currently detained by his wife and his children, Spinumviva released some of the names of her clients, the branches of activity and the values involved.
In addition to, which made the entire controversy, “companies that maintain a permanent bond with consultant Spinumviva, LDA, in the area of implementation and development of action plans within the application of the General Data Protection Regulation are: Lopes Barata, Consulting and Management, LDA; Clip – Luso International College of Porto, SA; FERPINTA, SA; Popular Radio, SA.“.
In a statement sent to Lusa agency, Spinumviva also revealed that The services that provide ranged from 1,000 to 4,500 euros.
“So that there are no doubt, the prices charged and paid for the services provided meet the size and complexity of the work with each client and oscillate between € 1000 and € 4500 per month”, reads in a statement sent to Lusa agency.
Expresso reported this Friday that the group of Casinos and Hotels Solverde, headquartered in Espinho, pays to Spinumviva a Monthly Aldação of 4500 euros Since July 2021, for “specialized compliance services and definition of procedures in the field of personal data protection”.
Montenegro will not fire
Luís Montenegro announced, by the end of Friday morning, to have summoned a Extraordinary Council of Ministers for Saturday and communication to the country on personal and political decisions about the company currently detained by your wife and children.
However, It will not be to fire. This is because in the afternoon, in Porto, next to French President Emmanuel Macron, the Portuguese Prime Minister guaranteed that it will be, next week, on the European Council.
The Council of Minister and communication to the country will only serve to make “deep evaluation” of personal, family and political conditions.
PM removes conflict of interest
Montenegro represented Solverde in 2022, in negotiations with the state for compensations, due to the pandemic of Covid-19, which translated into an extension of concessions until the end of 2025.
However, the lawyer and businessman Montenegro was appointed Prime Minister. At the end of this year, There will be new negotiations between the state and solverde.
Montenegro has assured that he will not make any decision “in conflict of interest with any professional activity or particular interest”.
“It never happened and it will never happen. Whenever there is a situation where my intervention or the possibility of a decision is to collision with some particular interest, either through the exercise of professional functions or through personal knowledge, I will exempt myself to intervene, ”he added.
The agreement between Spinumviva and Solverde was signed six months after the constitution of the company now detained by the wife and the children of Montenegro in July 2021.
In this sequence, the IL leader Rui Rocha defended that, if Luís Montenegro wants to continue to be a prime minister, he has to undo the spinumviva, noting that it is incompatible to be Prime Minister and entrepreneur at the same time.
Already the Leader of arrives André Ventura compared Montenegro to José Sócratesarguing that the Prime Minister must resign or present a motion of trust to be voted in Parliament.
In turn, the opposition leader and leader of the PS Pedro Nuno Santos It points out that it is urgently ascertain “that the Prime Minister was not due to the favor of anyone”.
