Filipe Amorim / Lusa
António Leitão Amaro, Minister of the Presidency
The spinumviva process practically made the plan approved in February this year. But where is this document?
We were on February 13 this year when the government announced that it had approved the “Government risk prevention plan”.
It represented “significant advances in compliance with the anti -corruption agenda” and this document would have “mechanisms that allow to reduce the risk of conflicts of interest and promote transparency regarding government members and cabinet members”.
It would put Portugal “as one of the first countries at European level to approve a plan with these characteristics,” reads that of the Council of Ministers, which is still available.
More than three months later, Where is this plan?
Is that the document was never published, never presented. And, in fact, the subject was very “erased” by the process Spinumviva – The first about the case came only two days after this statement from the Council of Ministers.
O DN asked the document, Leitão Amaro refused. It is a “internal efficacy document”, the minister of the presidency justified at the time.
But now, more specifically last week, the same newspaper has presented a action in administrative courts To request access to this document, within the scope of the Lada (Law of Access to Administrative Documents).
Fernanda Câncio This breakthrough: “The action was decided after the government has been systematically, since March 6 – when DN first requested it, summoning the lada – refused the newspaper’s access to this document” – which had as a priority. “Promote transparency” but never appeared.
The DN asked for three times to read the document (March 6, April 3 and 11). The government assured that the plan would be published in the Diário da República. It was not.
Later, in late April, and close to early legislative elections, the management government justified that the government’s risk prevention plan “It does not fit the administrative activity of the government”. That is, it does not have to be public.
The lada indicates that an “administrative document” is content, or part of this content, “that is in possession or arrested in the name of organs or entities referred to in the following article [o qual refere “órgãos de soberania e os órgão do Estado”]be it information support in written, visual, sound, electronic or other material form, including those related to (…) procedures for issuing acts and administrative regulations. ”
The law of access to administrative documents also indicates that “all, without the need to state any interest, have the right to access documents Administrative, which comprises the rights of consultation, reproduction and information about their existence and content. ”
