Viseu City Council
On top of the municipalities, the case is causing controversy in PSD Viseu because the gas explorer is on the elections lists.
A fuel supply post next to Rotunda Carlos Lopes, in Viseu, paid Only about 600 euros per year of income to the City Council for 25 years. The contract, signed in 1990 with Petrogal, provided for an initial 20 -year duration, with automatic renewals every five years.
The revelation, advanced by the, is generating controversy within the local PSD, since the explorer of the post, José Alberto Ferreira, occupies fourth place in the lists from the party to the municipality.
The contract stated that “Petrogal will pay to the City Council of Viseu, only at once and during the month of January of each year, the annual amount of One hundred and twenty thousand shields”The equivalent of 600 euros. It added that this amount should be updated annually according to the government -set coefficients for non -housing incomes. It is not known, however, if this update has been fulfilled and which amounts actually paid over the last decades.
José Alberto Ferreira says “unaware of the values and clauses of the contract”, Insisting that the post operates in franchising and that all negotiations fit Petrogal. Still, his presence in the PSD’s local lists is being contested internally, with voices defending the exclusion of both Ferreira and the vice president of the House, João Paulo Gouveia, who in 2025 had filed the renewal of the contract.
Source linked to the office of the mayor, Fernando Ruas, explained on Sunday that It was not possible to consult the contract Due to the city day celebrations, promising additional clarifications at the beginning of the week.
The case is raising doubts about transparency in the management of municipal heritage and the details of the successive renewals of the contract with the oil company, with the repercussions already felt in the local leadership of the PSD.
