Homeport there are some fresh STP TELE NON stories re: corruption - perhaps there are some better translations
Tense Political situation in Saint Tomé and Prince THE minister of the Business Foreigners and Cooperation came this week try to clarify the apparently contradictory statements of the president Fradique of Menezes (in the picture) with the of the chief one of the executive, Maria of the Carmo Silveira from the question of the eventual increase of the corruption in the archipelago.
But this can be barely the tip of the iceberg.
There are sensibly two weeks, Fradique of Menezes guaranteed to the press that had been alerted by the World Bank of the increase of the corruption in Saint Tomé and Prince. But to the arrival of a visit to New Iorque, United States, Maria of the Carmo Silveira, found strange the origin of the facts before advanced by the leader of state.
It guaranteed even that, of the meetings maintained with the World Bank, this question never outside approached. It was more distant and said that for the American north authorities, the islands are it exercise an I control efficient about the corruption.
“Of fact you president was not in Washington with the World Bank and with the International Monetary Bottom for discuss the matter corruption, as was not in Washington did not speak with the World Bank and with the FMI and never would be able to speak by that about the corruption”, guaranteed the minister of the Business Foreigners and Cooperation, Ovídeo Small.
The minister Ovídeo Small explained that the question of the corruption was approached yes, but in a meeting between the rulers are-tomenses with the responsible of the initiative Millenium Challenge Account.
“What is passed is that alerted us that the indices that we had immediately that legible for this programs, were high and they noticed that there is today a light decrease in ours I control of the corruption”, explained the captain of the paste of the Business Foreigners.
Dependable spring guaranteed in the however to the Téla Nón that the relations between the two organs of sovereignty already were not the best before of this polémica. Because of that, Fradique of Menezes moved away the minister of the Oils of the charge of leader of the delegation are-tomense in the ministerial commission assembly of the oil, and assigned in his place, the captain of the paste of the business foreigners, Ovídeo Small, man of the its confidence.
But the break looks do not exist barely in the relations between these two organs of sovereignty. Because of the last public interventions of several political actors and of the national society, as well like of the president of the Most supreme Court of Justice about him referring to the system of government, the president are-tomense had agendado for this afternoon a communication to the country.
To what does everything indicate, for clear to polémica referring, and approach to suspeição created to the return of the ascent or not of the indices of corruption in the islands. However, the more high magistrate of the nation remitted to his communication for date it assign.
