The PSD scheduled a topical debate on “the privatization of TAP” for Thursday, after the party’s president had already accused the government of “a political and financial crime” in the national airline.
In the last debate with the President of the Government in Parliament, on September 29, questioned by the Liberal Initiative, António Costa said that he expected the privatization of TAP to take place in the next twelve months, stating that “only if it were irresponsible” guarantee that the State will not lose money in the transaction, although it says that it hopes that this will not happen.
Two days later, the president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, said that what was done in TAP “It was a political and financial crime”considering that the will of the Government to privatize the company, after renationalizing it, cannot remain unopposed.
For the Social Democratic leader, citizens should look at this case “and draw lessons from the perspective of managing public resources” and the consequences of the decisions “made by government officials.”
“They told us that the TAP was strategic, that the TAP had to be in the hands of the State, because we could not stop having a flagship company,” he said, noting that in 2016 the Government “inherited a TAP with the majority of the capital in private hands” and in the process of privatization, having subsequently opted for the path of renationalization.
Luís Montenegro also recalled the more than three billion euros in state aid to TAP as a result of the pandemic.
After having injected so much capital, after all, do you think that the way out is to reprivatize TAP? But are these people playing governance? Are you playing with our money? Those 3,000 million were used, for example, so that there were no pension cuts for at least three years, ”she stressed.
The current debate on Thursday will last an hour and a half, organized in two shifts, being opened by the party that proposes it, followed by the Government’s response and requests for clarification from all parliamentary groups and single deputies.
Source: Observadora
