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Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos commented on the inclusion of the prime minister in the Committee of Honor of the president of Benfica.
The president of the CDS-PP criticized on Tuesday the support of the prime minister or “any other politician” for the re-election of the president of Benfica, arguing that it is a matter related to “everyone’s life” and should not be normalized.
“This episode has nothing to do only with the political life of the Prime Minister. It has to do with the lives of all of us. To normalize this is to give oxygen to the fire that burns confidence in the Democratic Rule of Law,” the leader wrote. centrist on his official Facebook account.
In this publication, the president of the CDS criticizes the decision of António Costa to join the committee of honor for the reevaluation of the president of Benfica, Luís Filipe Vieira, in which the names of the mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, and the parliamentary leader also appear. of CDS-PP, Telmo Correia.
Confronted with journalists on Saturday and Monday, the prime minister argued that his support for Benfica’s re-election “has nothing strictly to do” with his political life or his functions.
For Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, “it is precisely the ethical and moral duties”, which he considered “as or more relevant than the letter of the law”, which “should guide the decision not to directly associate a Prime Minister -or any other another politician with a prominent role in our democracy – a president of a soccer club. “
Above all, when it was the prime minister who approved the sale of Novo Banco – with a mechanism that allows this bank to seek money from the State to capitalize – to which the president he supports owes 225 million euros, which were paid with the money. of all. Without this motivating any audit to understand why the debt was not paid, ”says Rodrigues dos Santos.
The Christian Democratic leader points out that “there is an additional violation of the successive articles of the code of conduct that António Costa himself created to avoid situations of conflict of interest, lack of impartiality and undue benefit of third parties, involving members of his Government.”
Noting that the example “is not only the best way to influence others, it is the only way”, the president of the CDS points out that when he requested the leadership of the party at the end of last year, he left “all the functions he performed” in the Sports.
I understood that, in order to avoid conflicts of interest and give credibility to the position I was proposing, the simple fact of running for the presidency forced me to draw an ethical line that would hygienically separate the political sphere from football. I did so, and later ended up being elected president of the CDS, now completely free and free from other ties, “he says.
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