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Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, Mayor of Gaia
The mayor was convicted of the crime of embezzlement, for misuse of a car. Marina Mendes will be her successor.
The Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigueswho was sentenced to the loss of mandate for the crime of embezzlement, announced today that he will present his renunciation to office in June.
“I have the feeling of the mission accomplished and my quiet conscience. Therefore, I communicate that I will present my resignation to the mandate together with the delivery of the consolidated accounts report in mid -June. I will conclude, with the complete municipal financial report, my work and the work of my team, leaving the document of municipal consolidated accounts to compare with the pitiful state in which I received the mayor and the municipal public,” said the mayor and the mayor. Press Conference today at the Noble Hall of the City Hall.
In a decision known on Monday, the Constitutional Court (TC) the loss of mandate of Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues (PS), convicted of the crime of embezzlement, for misuse of a car of this municipality of the district of Porto.
The decision following the appeal filed by the mayor to the TC, after, in October 2024, the Porto Court of Appeal (TRP) had the conviction of loss of mandate, decided by the Vila Nova de Gaia Court in November 2023.
Source of the mayor’s defense then advanced to Lusa that he will submit a complaint, which will be relearned at a CT conference.
Today, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues assured: “I will continue to fight for the truth, to appeal until the proper justice is obtained.”
“But, arrived here, I no longer expect for the final results of justicethat can well go beyond the mandate. I had already said that I pondered to leave, and the time came. I do not leave politics or the struggle. I will continue to participate in civic intervention spaces, thinking, speaking and writing, ”he added.
Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues also considered that TC’s dispatch “is unfair e wrong, deserving the proper contestation for the TC collective, which will be done. ”
“There is therefore no res judicata of the decision to the final judgment,” he said.
In November 2023, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues was convicted by the Vila Nova de Gaia Court for a crime of embezzlement of use, the loss of mandate and the payment of a fine of 8,400 euros for personally using an electric vehicle in the municipality.
The court also condemned the mayor’s wife for the same crime to pay a fine in the same amount, and the defendants appeal to the TRP.
As for the mayor, the port of Porto reduced the fine to 4,800 euros, maintaining the condemnation of loss of mandate.
O TRP acquitted the woman The mayor of the crime and the fine applied, but maintained the conviction regarding the loss of the advantage obtained.
The prosecution’s accusation (MP) maintained that the defendants “decided to use, as if it were yours”, an electric vehicle Acquired on a financial lease by a municipal company, following a direct adjustment agreement entered into on October 13, 2017, “upon payment of a monthly income” of 614 euros.
Elected for the first time in 2013, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues (PS) The third term would end this year ahead of the Vila Nova de Gaia Chamber, not being able to re-apply.
Marina Mendes is the successor
The current deputy mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, Marina Mendes, will assume the presidency of this autarchy.
In the same press conference, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues said that who will take over the presidency on the date they leave will be Marina Mendes.
“I will be naturally succeeded by Dr. Marina Mendes, current councilor of the House,” said the mayor after announcing that the succession should take place in the second or third weeks of June after presenting the consolidated account report.
Marina Mendes has happened a Patrocínio Azevedo in the position of deputy mayor of Gaia after it was taken preventively in the context of Operation Babel.
In addition to vice-president, Marina Mendes was an assistantly assistant to Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues in the areas of education, social action, housing, employment and cohesion, also accumulating folders related to social innovation, municipal day care center, municipal gender plan, among other programs.
In October, Marina Mendes applied to the position of director Municipal People Management and Organization of Porttaking third in the contest, according to documents to which Lusa had access.
