PS Deputy Pedro Delgado Alves acknowledged that he accessed information about clients of Spinumviva, which is connected to the family of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, just hours before Wednesday’s parliamentary debate regarding a power outage. The coordinator of the Working Group and vice-president of the socialist parliamentary group admitted to accessing the information during a Parliament meeting and reiterated this on Thursday.
Upon receiving the information, Delgado Alves shared it with the Bloco de Esquerda’s parliamentary leader, Fabian Figueiredo.
“Following the notification and consultation, I exchanged views with Fabian Figueiredo, who is also part of this Working Group and similarly notified, because it seemed (and was correct) that there were new data beyond what was publicly available about the company,” Pedro Delgado Alves explained on Thursday.
However, the socialist assured that the process of accessing this kind of information is “customary,” prompting him to promptly inform the Working Group when PSD Deputy Hugo Carneiro inquired about “who accessed it.”
“There is nothing secret or unusual. It is the role of the Working Group and its members,” justified PS Deputy Delgado Alves.
Later, in a live statement to SIC Notícias, Pedro Delgado Alves emphasized that the PS “did not disclose the information outside the Working Group,” which has the “function and mission to consult the statements.”
“An email is automatically triggered whenever a deputy makes an amendment. We had a meeting on Wednesday, and a notification arrived that the Prime Minister had updated the register of interests as a deputy. As we do in the Working Group, I consulted it,” he added.
Social Democrat Hugo Carneiro requested that the Register of Interests Working Group in Parliament ask the Transparency Entity for records of who accessed the data concerning the Prime Minister. This request was made public by the deputy on the social network X on Thursday. The request follows the accusation by PS General Secretary Pedro Nuno Santos that Luís Montenegro lacks “fitness for the office he holds” after a news report revealed that the Prime Minister filed a new declaration of interests, disclosing new clients of Spinumviva.
In response, on Wednesday, the Prime Minister stated that he did not publicize any interaction, explaining that he had responded to a request made to him.
