Pacheco Pereira in Serralves: “I accepted because it is an unpaid position” – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The historian Jose Pacheco Pereira and the former Minister Isabel Pires de Lima Culture are the names chosen by the Ministry of Culture for the administration of the Serralves Foundation . The decision was announced a day after the Minister of Culture, João Soares, have met with the still chairman of the foundation’s management, Luis Braga da Cruz, who leaves office later this month.

Pacheco Pereira and Pires de Lima, whose choice , the Government, join so the economist Ana Pinho Silva Macedo, who will assume the presidency of the Serralves Foundation in 2016-18 triennium.

“The two nominees are recognized portuenses intellectual merit,” reads the statement of the Government, quoted by Lusa. According to the statutes of the foundation, “the Board of Directors consists of nine members, including a president, three vice-presidents and five members” with the appointment of new directors to be carried out “by secret ballot and absolute majority “, and the” choice of the members is the board’s own risk, with the exception of two, always appointed by the state. “

In your Abrupt blog, Pacheco Pereira insisted to leave a small clearing on his appointment: “I accepted to be a place unpaid and without any prebend, a condition that put the inviting.” “I make also part of the Patrons Council of Vieira da Silva Museum / Arpad Szenes, the Advisory Council Aljube Museum, and the Advisory Council of the University of Porto. All without any compensation, “he adds the militant PSD.

Braga da Cruz ends functions as president of the Serralves Foundation later this year, assuming in January the Board of Founders. Already this month had been announced that the member of the Board of Directors Ana Macedo Pinho Silva would be the replacement of Braga da Cruz. A choice made by the Board of Founders intended to ensure continuity, as it was then explained.

The Board of Directors of the three-year period 2013-15 the state representatives were Rui Manuel Campos Guimarães , vice president of that body and member of the Executive Committee, and the Socialist MEP Elisa Ferreira.

The appointment of José Pacheco Pereira comes at a time that his name is shrouded in controversy. Some prominent names of the PSD, as Ângelo Correia or Duarte Marques, have criticized the participation of historian and former deputy in presidential candidates left of shares, implying that Pacheco Pereira had to leave the party.

Since Isabel Pires de Lima, a respected academic, is a well known name in the cultural environment of Porto. It is full professor of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, having specialized in the work of Eca de Queiroz. In 2005 he was chosen by then Prime Minister José Sócrates to the folder of Culture – was since 1999 Independent Member of the Socialist Party. He held this post of Minister of Culture until 2008.