Lobo Xavier: There are “commitments written” between the Government and António Domingues – Public.en

It was more an episode in the controversy over the declarations of income and assets of the managers of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos. António Lobo Xavier, who is a friend of António Domingues, went out on the Thursday night in defense of the president of CGD, ensuring that "there are commitments written" with the Government, and accusing the executive of an "unbelievable ” lack of solidarity" with the managers.

"there Were some gentlemen who had beautiful places on the sites where they were and were challenged by the Government to treat CGD. [Managers] have Put their conditions, as always happens, and to them was promised to them was even written," said Lobo Xavier in the program Squaring the Circle, of SIC Notícias, cited by the newspaper, the Echo.

Lobo Xavier called out what the PUBLIC had already advanced in the past week. António Domingues has placed three conditions to accept the invitation that has been made: to ensure a recapitalisation without “State aid” (that is, without which Brussels imposed restrictions); release the CGD limits the salary, including the workers; and to dispense with the administration of the presentation of the public declarations of heritage. The conditions, according to information matching between Government sources and Box, have been accepted by Mário Centeno and Mourinho Félix soon on March 20 and will be recorded in writing.

"Therefore, these commitments, even written, are not A, B or C, can not say that the prime minister did not know or knew, and the minister of Finance didn’t know…", and he still Lobo Xavier, placing it at the side of the managers who refuse to deliver the declaration of income and assets. "The managers are silent, are silent, there are no declarations of the managers, there are no interviews, do not defend themselves. Are to be victims of a scene absolutely unbelievable the lack of solidarity and lack of taking responsibility," continued the commentator at SIC television News, which is a non-executive director of BPI, the bank where António Domingues was before moving to the Box.

"The Government, with a huge lack of solidarity, a coldness that I find it absolutely shocking and close to the indignity, is to pass to the managers of the Box the odious responsibility of things that combined with them", says Lobo Xavier, in another passage of the program.

"What country is this? Then a few men were hired, and think that they have the right not to deliver the statements and read the law in a certain way. And I also think that they are right. And they want to give the right to defend themselves", he criticized even the lawyer, who publicly assumes that the administrators of the Box are not obliged to submit their declarations of income and assets to the Constitutional Court.

This controversy began when the Government changed the law to prevent the managers of CGD have salaries limited. However, the TC notified the managers of the Box to submit their declarations of income and assets, something that managers understand that they are not obliged to do.