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Prime Minister António Costa and the Mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, are part of the honor committee for the re-election of Luís Filipe Vieira to the presidency of Benfica. The news is advanced by the weekly Quick.
Questioned by the same newspaper, the prime minister’s office affirms that the presence of António Costa in the list of fans is as a member and follower of the club and not as prime minister or general secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), as happened. in the elections to the presidency of Benfica in 2012 and in 2016. Fernando Medina’s office responded in the same way: the mayor is on the honor committee as a citizen and member of the club.
On the honor committee for the re-election of Luís Filipe Vieira to the presidency of Benfica, a position he has held since 2003, there are more than 500 more names, in a list that is not yet closed, indicates the weekly, but which has other personalities politicians like Rui Pereira. , the former Minister of Internal Administration, the Mayor of Seixal, Joaquim Santos, and the deputies Duarte Pacheco, make PSD, and Telmo Correia, from CDS. There is no official date for the club’s elections yet.
The president of Benfica was recently associated by Rui Pinto with Doyen. According to the hacker told the Public Ministry, the investment fund will have paid the Luis Filipe Vieira private jet travel between Portugal and Brazil. This is another case in which the president of the club is involved: Vieira is also accused of Operation Lex.
The news has already had the reaction of another candidate for the presidency, João Noronha Lopes, who assures that “no honor committee, list or advisory body presented” by his candidacy will include politicians in executive functions, defending the “scrupulous separation between politics and the football”.
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