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Luís Montenegro in the presentation of the Electoral Program of the PSD/CDS coalition
PSD Prime Minister and President Luís Montenegro said today that about two months ago that he is confronted with news he considers corresponding to the misinformation and manipulation of facts, reiterating that he did not hide any bank account.
“About two months ago that we have been confronted with a series of news, many of them filled in a way that I consider that corresponds to misinformation and manipulation of factsoften perfectly normal and banal, ”said Luís Montenegro,
The Prime Minister realized to be talking about two communication bodies in particular, namely the newspapers Express and Morning Mail.
According to the lpimeiro-minister, these two agencies have “a pattern of news presentation that then have had as a consequence that all other organs of social communication, political and media agents, They are induced in error and reproduce news titles that are absolutely false”.
Today, Correio da Manhã writes, on the cover of the paper edition, that Luís Montenegro hid several bank accounts to the Constitutional Court.
In its online edition, the CM that, questioned, the TC and the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that the Public Prosecutor’s Office, with the TC, asked the Prime Minister andAdditional SCLATIONS on the income statement delivered to the TC, a Answer that was given on April 7.
To the request for clarification made today by journalists, Luís Montenegro said he had “Three Accounts to OrderAnd that none of these accounts had a balance greater than 50 national minimum wages. “And I even said to the prosecutor what the balance they presented and I have nothing to hider, ”he said.
“Are the bank accounts, to order, of my life. One is 37 years old, another 27 and another 16 years old. It was a banal clarification provision ”,
According to CM, if the sum of the balances of these bank accounts exceeding 50 minimum wages (the equivalent of 38 thousand euros in 2023 and 42 thousand euros in 2024), Montenegro is obliged to declare these accounts Banking to the Order, pursuant to Law 52/2019 of 31 July.
Montenegro also pointed out that did not hide any account And he repeated that he is the only Portuguese politician who has publicly presented the value of his income statements in the last 15 years.
“Therefore, Everyone knows how much I have won in the last 15 yearsthe money I made from both of them, Either it was spent or was spared“He stressed.
“The accounts they are talking about are the accounts where this money isthe money that I got to workthere is no cent in my accounts other than from work, mine and my family. I’m very comfortable with that, ”he said.
