Transgender deputy also faked PSD

Deputy António Maló de Abreu gave different addresses to the PSD_Parliamentary Group and to the services of the Assembly of the Republic for the purposes of subsistence allowances. The now head of list by the Rest of Europe circle, declared to Parliament that his residence is in Luanda on the eve of his inauguration, in April 2022. As proof, he presented the proof issued by the Consulate-General of Portugal in Luanda and with this received around 75 thousand euros in allowances and subsidies, in addition to two trips a year to Angola «in the highest class practiced».

André Ventura stated yesterday that, if he discovers that the candidate «he received abusive amounts of money and that his residence was not in Luanda and that his circle was not in Luanda», will not be on Chega’s lists. She added that Maló de Abreu assured her that the news released yesterday by the magazine Saturday is not true:_«I asked him if this was true and he told me that it was not». How did the Saturday, the former PSD deputy declared to Parliament that he lived in Luanda during the last legislature. However, he always lived in Coimbra, as evidenced by his presence in Parliament and several PSD leaders. In the statements he made, André Ventura said that he thought «it’s strange that the PSD didn’t monitor this situation».

Contacted by SunriseJoaquim Miranda Sarmento, leader of the social democratic bench, stated that «once again André Ventura failed to tell the truth». This is because the residence address that Maló de Abreu – and all deputies – send to the general secretariat of Parliament for the purposes of allowances and subsidies is information that is not made available to parliamentary groups. And the truth is that the then PSD deputy and now Chega candidate gave his parliamentary group another address: Coimbra. «The Parliamentary Group asks its deputies for the address and it is the one they send us that we consider to be true». Even because «parties do not have access to the information that is sent to Parliament’s services».

O Sunrise He tried to obtain clarification from Málo de Abreu but received no response.

To have the residence certificate issued by the Consulate of Portugal in Luanda – a document that served to change his registration in the Assembly –, the deputy had to present the resident card issued by the Government of Angola or the work visa. What are the grounds for obtaining one of these two documents is unknown. «At Chega, one of the concerns that I have and have had as president is to ensure that all deputies and employees are and are in an exemplary and absolutely legal manner in relation to Parliament’s allowances and salaries», guaranteed Ventura. Which does not seem to have happened in the case of Málo de Abreu.