João Relvas / LUSA
Álvaro Santos Pereira and Mário Centeno
Former governor of the Bank of Portugal reached an agreement to retire at the age of 59 – with a pension close to his monthly salary: 17 to 20 thousand euros.
O He arrives will call the parliament o governor of the Bank of Portugal (BdP) to explain Mário Centeno’s reform with “scandalous benefits”, announced the party president, who said that there was a “hidden agreement”.
The had indicated that the current consultant and former governor had already signed a retirement agreement, by decision of the Bank of Portugal itself.
Mario Centenoformer governor of the BdP, “reached an agreement to retire at 59an early retirement with outrageous benefits from a financial point of view and from the point of view of monthly remuneration, close to your salary of 17 to 20 thousand euros every month“, said André Ventura, at a press conference, at the party headquarters, in Lisbon.
For Chega’s leader, this situation is a “absolute immorality“, with the person responsible arguing that “it is not acceptable that someone with capacity, still using their faculties, in a country where people are required to work until the age of 67, some with miserable pensions, can make an agreement with a public institution, with public money, in which, at the age of 59, they start to retire with amounts of this order of magnitude and of this nature”.
At issue is news published by Jornal ECO, this Friday, that Mário Centeno would leave Banco de Portugal as a consultant and retire, receiving a full pension.
Ventura considered that there was, in this situation, a “hidden agreement, probably illegal, or at least highly suspicious, and certainly incredibly unethical.”
Given the news about Mário Centeno’s reform, Chega then decided, at the Budget, Finance and Public Administration Committee, to make a request to hear the current governor of the BdP, Álvaro Santos Pereira, so that he can explain the case.
For the president of Chega, this agreement is “proof that these collusions between politics and money are circuits that always work to harm taxpayers”.
