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Top Social Democrat resigns over CV and travel expenses fiddle

psdSecretary-General of the Social Democratic Party has resigned just a month into the job
 
Feliciano Barreiras Duarte today presented his resignation to the party's president, Rui Rio.
 
Duarte has been under pressure for over a week after his CV referred to his position as Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, which was false. The Attorney General's Office ordered an investigation.
 
This weekend, Duarte was back in the papers after the Observer discovered that the MP has been fiddling his travel expenses for ten years by claiming his parent’s address outside of the capital in Bomparral was his own, when in fact he lived in Lisbon.
 
Between 1999 and 2009 Barreiras Duarte received travel expenses as if he was living in Bombarral, claiming that as this is his fiscal address it’s the one he should use.
 
"As the fiscal address is the only one relevant to any administrative and fiscal matter, including the right to vote, I understood that this was of course the address that should be placed on the register of the Assembly of the Republic," came the feeble explanation from the politician.
 
The Social Democratic Party hierarchy was having none of it. In an interview with Antena 1 on Saturday, one of the party's vice presidents, Manuel Castro Almeida, noted the general discomfort with the case.
 
"It is good that he considers whether or not he has the conditions" to continue in office, said the leader, stressing that the controversy surrounding Duarte has been dragging on "for some time."
 
 
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-1 #7 Terry P 2018-03-21 08:03
Quoting Darcy:
Jack reacher,
Where did they learn lying, stealing and corruption...
From the best in the world... The British.
Due to a vibrant press sector, the British MPs experienced a purge in the expenses scandal. This was long overdue and should be rolled out across all EU member states to see exactly how much our representatives have decided to pay themselves.
0 #6 Darcy 2018-03-21 07:37
There we have it from Ed, every democracy in the world has corruption. Maybe some of the "not so well informed" comment maker's could take note.
-1 #5 Ed 2018-03-19 23:41
Quoting Darcy:
Jack reacher,
Where did they learn lying, stealing and corruption...
From the best in the world... The British.

and the Italians, Spanish, French, Americans and just about every 'democracy' in the world - apart from the squeaky clean Danes of course...
0 #4 Darcy 2018-03-19 21:44
Jack reacher,
Where did they learn lying, stealing and corruption...
From the best in the world... The British.
+1 #3 Guido 2018-03-19 11:47
Jack, they are all inbibated troughout their mother 's milk !
+4 #2 marjolein Massis 2018-03-19 03:33
Answer to the first question, NO. second question, Brainwashed by their surrounding from birth on. So, you can not completely blame them.
+1 #1 Jack Reacher 2018-03-18 20:40
Is there any politician in this country that isn't deceitful or out to take advantage of his/ her position by stealing state or public money..I mean really. Where do these people learn that it's OK to steal, lie and become corruptable?

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