Luís Silvano, firefighter and former municipal candidate
Luís Silvano decided to withdraw the candidacy for the parish of Aradas, in Aveiro. The former candidate improperly used the IAM fleet cards to supply his own car.
The candidate arrives at the Parish Council of Aradas, in Aveiro, Luís Silvano, announced on Tuesday that he will withdraw his candidacy for the municipal elections, after being publicly fired by the just cause of INEM in 2019, following a case of a case of improper use of fleet cards for supply of private vehicles.
Silvano, 41, then worked as a prehospital emergency technician in Lisbon, having been removed from the institution after internal investigations involving More than 20 suspicious operational to divert fuel. The case was resolved by INEM without appeal to court, but the dismissal decision was published in Diário da República, invoking the point on “reaching or diversion of public money” from the General Labor Law in public functions.
Speaking to, Silvano confirmed that his case was linked to this collective process, but stressed that keeps the criminal record clean. Currently professional firefighter in Aveiro, assured that he has no “any problem with INEM”.
Confronted with the controversy, the candidate assumed that his entry into the municipal race was “Almost a joke between friends“.” I don’t realize anything about politics. Initially, it was to belong to the lists. I only knew after it would be the head of the list, but I never expressed that desire, ”he said. Silvano also revealed that he only became militant of the arrival of“ two days ago ”and has decided to abandon the party.
Despite having released the candidacy on social networks, he eventually removed the publication minutes later. In the text then shared, it was “firefighter and there is a long time resident in Aradas”, arguing that the parish needed “work, presence and seriousness”.
Aradas, an urban parish of Aveiro with about 10,000 inhabitants, will be so No Candidate confirmed to the board. Asked about the case, the party’s head to the Aveiro Chamber, Diogo Machado, chose not to comment.
