Miguel Relvas, while Secretary of State for Local Government in the Barroso administration, created the Foral programme to promote the training of employees of Portugal’s councils and was created with European funds. All laudable and above board, so far...
The advertising campaign for the project was awarded in 2002 to a small, little known media company, NTM, which was owned by a former PSD MP and current Secretary of State for Social Security, Augustine Branquinho.