20 hours. After being fired, Hernani Dias says he has a “clear conscience”

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It is Luís Montenegro's first resignation from the Government. Hernani Dias is no longer Secretary of State for Local Administration and Spatial Planning, but land law remains.

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Dismissal follows the controversy with two companies created by the governor and that can benefit from the new land law, a matter protected by the ministry of which he belongs. The content Montenegro accepts Hernâni Dias's resignation request to appear first in Jornal i.

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This is the first resignation from the XXIV Constitutional Government of the PSD/CDS-PP that took office on April 2 last year. The resigning ruler calls himself “conscience”

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Asked whether Hernâni Dias is able to continue as Secretary of State, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa says that “it is an issue that is being investigated”. The President of the Republic adds, however, that his resignation requires the decision of the heads of government.

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Secretary of State for Local Administration and Spatial Planning, Hernni Dias, is considered to have created two companies that can benefit from the new land law.

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At a press conference at the national headquarters of CHEGA in Lisbon, André Ventura considered that the news released by RTP on Friday that Hernâni Dias created two companies that can benefit from the new land law — an area he oversees as Secretary of State — reveals a “situation of pure incompatibility” and is “corruption in the eyes of all”. “I think the Prime Minister has only one solution: it's to fire Hernâni Dias quickly.