The President of the Republic considered this Tuesday, consulted on the case of the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, that the incompatibilities with the exercise of government positions must cease as soon as their existence is perceived.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who was speaking to journalists at the headquarters of the União das Misericordias Portuguesas, in Lisbon, said he did not know and did not want to comment specifically on the case of Manuel Pizarro, who according to a TVI report is still managing partner. from a health consultant.
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“In the abstract, it is very simple: if someone has an incompatibility that is truly incompatibility —I don’t know if it’s true, if not— for performing functions that are incompatible with the exercise of a public function, whatever it may be, what you should do immediately, if you haven’t done it before, is to fix this problem. And there are two ways to solve it: one is to stop exercising the public function, the other is to stop exercising the private function”, added the head of state.
The President of the Republic admitted that someone can assume a government position without realizing that there is an incompatibility with private activity: “If you have not done it before, as soon as you have the notion that there really is an incompatibility, or the public ceases the function, or the private function”.
“If there was no perception before there was incompatibility, it is simple: as soon as there is perception, the consequences are withdrawn,” he reinforced, when asked if Manuel Pizarro’s incompatibility should not have been avoided at first.
According to TVI, the Minister of Health communicated in writing that he was “aware that the exercise of functions as minister is incompatible with the integration of for-profit legal entities into social entities.”
Assuming himself as managing partner of the company Manuel Pizarro — Consultadoria, Lda., the minister told TVI that the process of dissolution of the company “has already begun” and “is not yet concluded because it is necessary to proceed with the sale of an asset.” . of the company”, a property in Porto, whose deed “is scheduled for the first days of October”.
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Source: Observadora
