Despite being unknown, the hearing of the former chief of staff of Minister Pedro Nuno Santos was one of the most anticipated by the parliamentary commission to investigate the management of TAP. But Maria Araújo, who is still Chief of Staff of the same ministry, but now in the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, left many of the answers to the political decision-makers who were in charge of the TAP issue when the departure of Alexandra Reis was negotiated. .
More for Hugo Mendes, then Secretary of State, than for his previous direct boss —Pedro Nuno Santos— with whom he admitted speaking very frequently (the last time was on Monday in a call that lasted 27 minutes, he clarified in response to the PSD deputy , Paulo Moniz). But there are also doubts about the description given by the successors in the cabinet of the Minister of Infrastructure —Minister Galamba and the Chief of Staff Eugénia Correia— about the deputy who worked in both ministries. In the first, she was competent, excellent professional and helpful. In the latter, she was disloyal and was exonerated.
1Frederico Pinheiro was very efficient. He always took notes and never refused any assignment. The former chief of staff of the minister has a very positive opinion of the former deputy, noting that Frederico Pinheiro was very efficient, he never refused to do any task. He sometimes had very tight deadlines, and he was always on time to deliver, he responded very quickly every time the minister and I asked for information. Maria Araújo stressed that he always had a good working relationship with the former deputy and had not received reports of any conflict between colleagues. She also confirms that Frederico Pinheiro always took notes at meetings and that he sent them, even when no one asked for them. Federico Pinheiro, he said, was not a violent person. And he admits to being perplexed by the events of the night of April 26.
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Source: Observadora
