Travelling || Education minister Nuno Crato is again in hot water as national weekly Expresso reveals he has “flown four times round the world” in just 12 months.
One of the many trips on government business saw him disappearing off the national scene in the middle of the current teachers’ placement crisis.
As thousands of children up and down the country trudged miserably back and forth to school with heavy schoolbooks that they never opened – thanks to the lack of teachers allocated this year – Crato was seen jetting off to Milan for “an informal meeting on telecommunications”.
It was a trip that left coalition members bemused, while taking his own team by “complete surprise”, writes Expresso in its last edition.
According to the paper, Crato was even challenged over his decision to fly during the teachers’ crisis, but he “refused to budge, and left for Italy”.
“In another episode, during the 7th troika evaluation of the bailout programme, when Passos’ executive was preparing cuts of €4 billion, the education minister went ‘travelling’ through Chile, Brazil and China in a prolonged absence of three weeks,” Expresso continues.
Just this year, Nuno Crato has flown “at least 160,000 km” which is “equivalent to four complete circuits round the world”, says the paper.
