The President of the Government of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, warned that the regional public companies have to be “accountable” and cannot be, “as they were for some time”, a “disguised debt rental belly”.
“I would like to encourage all companies in the corporate public sector to be held accountable. Take responsibility for presenting the successes and assuming the failures”, said the regional leader.
The head of the Azorean executive (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) was speaking this Thursday in Ponta Delgada, at the ceremony of 100 years of the port administration in the archipelago, organized by the public company Portos dos Açores.
Bolieiro stressed that the companies of the regional public business sector “have to be at the service” of Azorean businessmen.
Companies like these have to be at the service of entrepreneurs and the economy. They cannot continue to be, as they were for some time, a substitute for hidden debt, but they must help the competitiveness of our economy”, he insisted.
The president of the Diputación has defended that the “concepts of cohesion and territorial continuity cannot remain in words”, reiterating the creation, at the level of the European Union, of a Program of Specific Options for Remoteness and Insularity in the Outermost Regions (POSEI) for transportation, similar to what exists in agriculture.
“It is important that we make public opinion so that the European Union is co-responsible in the densification of the concepts of continuity and territorial cohesion, with the possible option of a POSEI transport”, he stressed.
Bolieiro also stated that the region can be a “competitive reference in the logistics offer of the North Atlantic and South Atlantic” and reiterated his intention to create a regional market in the archipelago.
“I want to leave a position to Portos dos Açores. It is the duty of strategic public policy in the port administration of the Azores to ensure a logistics model for the Azores that is a strategic offer for our economy, creating a regional market”, he pointed out.
Regarding the construction of port structures, the Social Democrat said that “it is not acceptable” that the new infrastructure does not contain a “monitoring component of the effects of nature”, due to the consequences of climate change.
The current Government of the Azores, supported in parliament by the executive parties, IL, Chega and an independent deputy, took office in November 2020, after 24 years of PS government in the region.
Source: Observadora
