Estela Silva / Lusa
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro
The donation of women’s quotas to the prime minister’s children has already materialized. Transparency entity investigates Montenegro income statements.
The Solverde Group announced today the termination of the service contract with Spinumvivacompany that belonged to the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro.
“Notwithstanding Spinumviva fully fulfilled their obligations to solverde and continually rendered their services in a professional way, they understood the two companies, pondering the current context and aiming exclusively at safeguarding the good name and reputation of boththat the termination of the aforementioned service relationship constitutes, in the current circumstances, the most appropriate solution ”, reads in a statement sent by the group.
The decision “allows Solverde to choose from March this March, a new service provider with the lowest public exposure,” he is also written.
According to this group, the decision “proves to be essential to protect solverde” in the face of “dissemination of facts that do not correspond to the truth, with the intentional mix of truths and lies and the consequent speculation without any foundation.”
Company passes to their children and is no longer headquartered in Espinho
The company Spinumviva announced on Wednesday that the donation of the Prime Minister’s Women’s Quota to his children was consummated, moving the headquarters to Porto, As it was announced by Luís Montenegro on Saturday.
“Public knowledge is given that the transmission is consummated by Donation of quotas and all assets (including reserves, supplies, or any credits) of the Spinumviva, LDA, to the partners Hugo and Diogo Montenegro, who also deliberated the change from the company’s headquarters to Porto, ”the company said in a statement. The company’s headquarters was at the family home in Espinho.
The announcement comes hours before the PCP is discussed in Parliament. In the middle, the government has presented the possibility of presenting a motion of trust.
According to the statement, “the donation was made with all corresponding rights and obligations.”
“No dividends were distributed as a consequence of the donationnor any credits to which donors were entitled. Donors have maintained the same principle in force since 2021, not removing any amounts from society as profits and dividends and preserving the autonomy of the company’s heritage, ”the note adds.
On Saturday, in a communication to the country, after a meeting of the Extraordinary Council of Ministers, that the Spinumviva family business would be “totally detained and managed by their children”, leaving the woman to be a manager, and would change her thirst.
The prime minister also said that “whenever there is any conflict of interest for personal and professional reasons” related to his family business will not participate in the decision-making processes of the government, such as other members of the executive.
“Portuguese, never gave in any particular interest in the public and general interest and will continue to be,” he said.
Montenegro justified the decision not to extinguish the company by considering not having “the right to deprive” the children of their professional activity due to their political functions.
“Honestly, I believe that if our political system It does not accept or control the conciliation between family life and political lifeWe are going to have a settlement to have politicians without a past and have politicians with no professional future, ”he said.
On June 30, 2022, just over a month after being elected president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro resigned from the company that founded in 2021 and transferred 92% of his participation to women and the remaining 8% of their position were distributed equally to both children.
With this operation, women started to stop 92% of the company’s capital and children 4% each. However, some jurists argue that the transmission of quota to women can be considered null, since the prime minister is married in communion of acquired.
The convening of an Extraordinary Council of Ministers and communication to the country to announce their “personal and political decisions” was made by Luís Montenegro after being reported by the weekly Expresso that the company detained by his wife and children receive one from the Solverde group.
Statements, heritage and interests “in verification”
The statements of income, heritage and interests of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, are “in verification,” the entity told Lusa for transparency.
“Without prejudice to the duty of confidentiality provided for in article 12 of the Entity Statute for Transparency, it can be inform unique statements The Prime Minister are in check, ”reads a written answer to questions posed by the Lusa agency to that entity, which is no use further details.
The Prime Minister announced on Monday that he would ask the entity for the transparency that audit the compliance of your statements and its evolution, ensuring that it has fulfilled all declarative obligations.
In a statement from Luís Montenegro’s office, it was said that “in recent days there are news about alleged conduct attributed to the prime minister in the professional and patrimonial scope, many of which are based on false assumptions, incorrections, inaccuracies and or highly debatable legal interpretations.”
However, “and so that there are no doubt, the Prime Minister will direct an application to the entity for transparency so that the compliance of the statements and its evolution can be audited. ”
The law establishes that it is responsible for the entity to “proceed to Analysis and Inspection of the single statement ”,“ request the clarification of the content of the statements to the declarants, in case of doubts suggested by the text ”and“ decide on the formal regularity of the statements and the compliance with the delivery time ”.
They are still their skills “Participate to the Public Prosecution Service Infringements not supplied under the provisions of the legal regime of statements of income, heritage and interests of the holders of political positions and high public positions ”, as well as the“ suspicion of criminal offenses resulting from the analysis of the single statement ”.
However, the entity for transparency does not have access to data such as tax or bank databases, Investigating only public databases, which removes the skills necessary to carry out the audit that the Prime Minister himself requested.
