Paulo Rangel requests Mourinho Félix’s resignation

  • ECO News
  • 24 November 2016

In a Facebook post on his page, the MEP Paulo Rangel stated there is only one way to solve this controversy: the state secretary for the Treasury should resign.

Paulo Rangel, MEP, expressed this morning on his Facebook page his discontent over the way in which the state secretary for the Treasury, Ricardo Mourinho Félix, handled the controversy about António Domingues’ meetings in Caixa Geral de Depósitos when he was still part of BPI’s board.

“Facing the public recognition made by the undersecretary of State, the state secretary for the Treasury and the state secretary for Finance that the Portuguese government authorized an administrator from a public bank to negotiate the future of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, I believe there is no other option but to have the state secretary Ricardo Mourinho Félix, the person chosen by the government to handle CGD’s future, to take the political consequences of this action – which contradicts the transparency, republican ethic and reveals an immense lack of consideration for this government’s taxpayers.”

Prior to having exposed the only possibility he considers for Mourinho Félix – resignation –, Rangel had started off his morning by requesting the Portuguese prime minister António Costa for clarifications about the role of the now chairman of the CGD in the process of the public bank’s recapitalization.

“It is important for António Costa to clarify everything – and I mean everything, and once and for all – about Caixa Geral de Depósitos: what was his role on the agreement of exempting administrators from having to hand in their income? And now, with these new developments, how did he authorize someone to attend the negotiations of CGD’s recapitalization, when that someone was still an administrator for another bank and had not yet assured he would accept his future job as CGD’s chairman?”