The CDS-PP parliamentary group presented this Wednesday a request to the Budget and Finance Committee in which it asks to the Bank of Portugal to send to the Assembly of the Republic, among other documents, the minutes of the Board of Directors’ decision that led to the granting of retirement to former governor Mário Centeno, despite being only 59 years old.
Taking into account that the former Minister of Finance, who became a consultant at the Bank of Portugal after being replaced by Álvaro Santos Pereira as governor, “would still be a few months away from fulfilling one of the criteria that would allow him to request retirement at the Bank of Portugal”, Centrist deputies intend to investigate the reasons why Mário Centeno will receive a pension similar to the one he would receive if he met the criteria of being 60 years old and having 35 years of deductions.
The request from the CDS-PP parliamentary group also wants the Bank of Portugal to send to the Budget and Finance Committee of the Legislative Assembly, which this Wednesday approved the hearing of Álvaro Santos Pereira, the remuneration level and value of Centeno’s remuneration when he joined the Government of António Costa, as well as when he stopped being governor of the Bank of Portugal and even the day before he retired.
Likewise, centrists ask the value of the retirement attributed to Mário Centeno, alluding to news that points to around ten thousand euros gross per month, as reported this Wednesday by Correio da Manhãas well as how many years of discounts the former governor had for the Banco de Portugal pension fund and whether these discounts give him the right to the value of the pension that was granted to him.
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