The PS said, this Wednesday, that it did not see any advantage in extending the purpose of the commission of inquiry proposed by BE to the political management of TAP between 2020 and 2022, but admitted analyzing the proposal to extend the PCP until 2015. The PSD, On the other hand, he said that he had nothing to oppose, contrary to Chega, who considered that this would be “destroying the investigation commission.”
These positions were advanced by the parliamentary leaders of the PS and PSD and by the leader of Chega, questioned by journalists in parliament, after the The PCP announced that it proposed to the rest of the parties that the parliamentary commission of investigation of the TAP be “more comprehensive” and its broader purpose “to the private management and privatization of the company in 2015”.
On January 6, BE handed over to parliament the text proposing that the commission of inquiry “under the political tutelage of the TAP leadership” focus in particular between 2020 and 2022, investigating the entry and exit of the former ruler Alexandra Reis and the guardianship responsibilities. in the decisions made.
The parliamentary leader of the PS, Eurico Brilhante Dias, affirmed that the party agreed to make the investigation proposed by the BE viable because the object seemed appropriate to him. “When we broaden the scope of a parliamentary committee of inquiry too far, we risk becoming less focused and not concentrating our efforts on pressing issues. (…) We are going to analyze, in a first approximation it seems to us that the object of the BE was adequate, we do not see much advantage in expanding it in a substantive way”, he said, although he pointed out that it is not a “definitive position”.
For his part, the PSD parliamentary leader, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, said that the party has nothing to oppose to this extension, so to include “privatization reversal, nationalization in 2020” and even the sale process. “We don’t have a problem with that,” she said.
The president of Chega, André Ventura, considered that expanding the object would be “destroy the commission of inquiry” and accused the PCP of wanting to pay “a freight to the Government.” “Chega will strongly oppose it. If we agree to broaden that scope, we are rendering any commission of inquiry useless,” he said.
Source: Observadora
