The order that António Costa published this Tuesday demanding prior approval of State payments to Endesa is seen by experts as “never seen”, “original” and “unpublished”. “It even seems fake“, point out some. The aforementioned order also raises several doubts about the legality that involves it, since the electric company cannot run the risk of being in a worse situation than the one it was contracted for.
The Observer contacted specialists in public contracts and also a constitutionalist and the questions raised almost always go in the same direction: a contract has to be fulfilled by both parties and the payment rules cannot be changed halfway and without agreement. “The feeling is that one passes over the obligations to which the State is obliged for a certain provision of a service”, comments lawyer João Macedo Vitorino to the Observer.
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Source: Observadora
