PSD general secretary Hugo Soares said this Thursday that the prime minister and finance minister should give the country an explanation for the hiring of Sergio Figueiredo, who he said was an “exchange of favors”.
“The PSD will not leave him unpunished and will certainly condemn such an attitude on the part of the Socialist Party government,” said Hugo Soares, who says he is waiting “this week for an explanation from the government and from the Prime Minister.” minister [António Costa]in connection with the hiring of former TVI Chief Information Officer Sergio Figueiredo.
The Secretary General of the SDP reacted to the news published on Tuesday by the newspaper Publicunder which the Ministry of Finance hired former TVI Chief Information Officer and former EDP Fund Administrator Sergio Figueireda as a strategic consultant to assess and monitor the impact of government policies.
According to the newspaper, this contract was concluded by direct agreement, and Sergio Figueiredo will receive a gross salary equivalent to the minister’s monthly salary, which corresponds to 4,767 euros. Sergio Figueiredo will take up his duties on July 29.
“This is a government that thinks it can do anything, uses the absolute majority as absolute power and, again, with authoritarian tics,” Hugo Soares told Lusa, adding that the country’s executive branch is “hiring by creating the feeling that this is an exchange of favor, especially since today we know that this is the redundancy of the functions that exist in the government itself and in the ministry of finance”, headed by Fernando Medina.
The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance “have to give the country an explanation, they continue without giving it and demonstrate that they believe that the government is the owner of the state and that everything can”, and Hugo Soares guarantees that “the PSD will not miss it unharmed and will not fail to condemn.
In Caldas da Rainha, where he attended the Expotur – Summer Party tonight and dined with elected officials of the social democratic municipalities, the party leader also criticized how “the government does not take responsibility for everything that happens” in the country. pointing to “chaos in health, problems in public transport and the scourge of fires.”
“What happens in the Serra da Estrela fire is the responsibility for the lack of coordination of tutelage and therefore the responsibility of the government,” he accused, criticizing the “inconsistency” and “lack of command” in the fighting. flames and an announcement after today’s Council of Ministers meeting for the purchase of more than 80 fire engines.
“But then, in mid-August, the government decides to buy fire engines that don’t even know if they will arrive by summer?” Hugo Soares asked, urging the government to take charge.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
