“I didn’t commit any crime.” Montenegro passes company to children and threatens with confidence motion

The prime minister announced this Saturday that the family business will be “totally detained and managed by his children”, leaving his wife to be a manager, and challenged the opposition to present a motion of censorship-but admits confidence motion “if there is no clarification” of positions.

In a communication to the country, after a meeting of the Extraordinary Council of Ministers, at the Prime Minister’s official residence in São Bento, Luís Montenegro announced that the Spinumviva family business is “fully detained and managed by their children.

Flanked by all ministers, the prime minister also said that “whenever there is any conflict of interest for personal and professional reasons ”related to your family business will not participate in decision -making processes of government, like other members of the executive.

Communication comes after the Expresso newspaper reported that the Solverde Casinos and Hotels group, seedled in Espinho, pays to the company detained by his wife and children, Spinumviva, one since July 2021, for “specialized compliance services and definition of procedures in the field of personal data protection”.

“Portuguese, I never gave any particular interest compared to the public and general interest and So it will continue to be”Assured Luís Montenegro.

“I did not do any crime, nor did I make any technical error“Montenegro said. But the explanations “will never be enough. This is a vicious cycle, ”he added.

In an intervention of about 20 minutes, the prime minister justified the decision not to extinguish the company as not having “the right to deprive” children of your professional activity due to your political functions.

“Honestly, I believe that If our political system does not accept or control the reconciliation between family life and political life, we will have a settlement to have politicians without past and have politicians with no professional future“, These.

The Prime Minister also admitted advance with a motion of trust to the government If opposition parties do not clarify consider that the executive “has conditions to continue to execute” his program.

“In political and governance terms, I insto the political partieswith seat in the Assembly of the Republic, the Declare semi tibiezas is consideredafter all that has been said and known, that the government has conditions to continue to execute the government program, as it resulted a week of the censorship motion vote, ”said Luís Montenegro.

The Prime Minister stated that, “Without this answer, political clarification will require confirmation of these conditions in Parliamentwhich, at the initiative of the government, can only happen with the Presentation of a motion of trust”.

After listing a set of indicators who considered to demonstrate that Portugal is “strong and recommended”Luís Montenegro argued that, “with the international uncertainty and the challenges that Europe faces, to put this country in motion in a political crisis It’s hard to understand”.

“The political crisis must be avoided. But it must also be said that it can come to inevitable”He stressed.

Addressing the Portuguese, Luís Montenegro assured that he himself and the government will continue to “ensure stability” to remain focused on solving the “real problems” of the population.

“But, as always, We will only be here with your confidence and with your legitimacy. I feel, I really feel, that this is your will, I feel that it is the majority will of the Portuguese that the government continues to execute its program, but it is up to the Assembly of the Republic and the political parties represented in it, to interpret the will of the Portuguese ”.

“It is this appeal that we launched here”Concluded the prime minister.

Confidence

The president of the arrival announced today that his party will vote against an eventual motion of confidence that is presented by the government, arguing that the prime minister “did not respond to any of the fundamental questions“.

Speaking to journalists at the party headquarters in Lisbon, transmitted by RTP, André Ventura He said that although he did not meet with the party organs, it is “consensual and unavoidable the feeling that it is impossible to enable the confidence of a prime minister with this degree of suspicion about himself. ”

“If we did it We would be betraying everything we believe. We would be betraying all the history we defended and which led, for example, to the fall of Miguel Albuquerque’s government in Madeira, ”added André Ventura.

Ventura also said that Montenegro “did not respond to any of the fundamental questions that the country, opposition, journalists, democratic scrutiny They required them to answer today. ”

The arrival of the arrival added that Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has “I like disaster” for wanting to “hide it all” Why is being scrutinated and “thinking that everything can be covered with a cloak of future elections or future confidence.”

“This is a crisis caused by its lack of transparencyfor its lack of honesty and ethics and for the miserable final attempt to manipulate the Portuguese by appealing to family and personal feelings, ”shot Ventura.

“José Sócrates would not do much different From what you did today Luís Montenegro, ”accused André Ventura. “If you were the leader of the arrival, it would be decimated by the political and media country.”

Also the deputy of the Free Party, Rui Tavareshe said that his party “has no political and institutional confidence in Prime Minister Luís Montenegro” and that VOTE AGAINST MOTION OF TRUST if it is presented by the government.

“This possible political crisis is for the sole responsibility of the Prime Minister, his lack of clarity in this case of conflicts of interest. We accept decision to present the motion of trust, but We have no confidence In this Prime Minister, what was still worsened today ”, assumed the deputy.

The Free spokesman also accused the prime minister of delivering to parties the responsibility of a political crisis “that Only if you are deepening by his house”And asked for Intervention by the President of the Republic to clarify if this is “the normal functioning of the institutions”.

Censure motion

The PCP will present a motion of censorship to the government, today announced the Communist Secretary-General, shortly after communication to the prime minister’s country.

Speaking to journalists, Paulo Raimundo He argued that the “government is unable to respond to Portugal’s problems” and “it deserves no confidence”, but censorship. “The PCP will present a motion of censorship to the government in the next few days, ”he announced.

The president of the liberal initiative, Rui Rocha does not clarify liberal initiative position, but says that has few arguments to vote the motion do PCP.

According to Rui Rocha, Montenegro did not understand the severity of the situation. The transmission of the company to the children until “it could have been an initial solution, but Does not erase the whole spot That this brought to you, ”says the IL leader.