The PKP considered this Wednesday that the preliminary report of the TAP investigation commission was designed to “defend and justify” the company’s privatization, and criticized that the consequences of non-compliance with the state administrator’s charter have not been removed. .
“What can we start by emphasizing that the proposal for the report of the commission of inquiry, without surprises, is a text designed to try to justify and defend the privatization of TAP,” PCP MP Bruno Dias said in a statement to reporters at the Assembly of the Republic.
Bruno Diaz argued that “what the report really ignores and forgets is very important” is the “impact, consequences and results of the privatization” of the airline.
The deputy cited Airbus funds as an example, noting that the commission of inquiry proved that TAP “was bought in 2015 with TAP’s own money,” since it was the airline that bought the planes, but “received 226.5 million.” was former shareholder David Neeleman.
“This fact is of the utmost importance and was known to both the PSD/CDS government and the PS government that followed. The proposed report ignores the fact that [ex-ministro das Infraestruturas do PS] Pedro Marquez acknowledged this,” he stressed.
Bruno Dias said that this deal “shows the lack of transparency of these processes, buried under a pile of opinions and secret and confidential information, but in fact hidden from the Portuguese people and any democratic control.”
“What is revealed in the work of the commission of inquiry cannot dig deeper into the knowledge and consequences of such situations. This type of situation is especially serious for TAP,” he stressed, stressing that after this deal, the European Union then introduced a restructuring process for the airline.
Bruno Diaz pointed out that “no consequences or conclusions were reached regarding the various inconsistencies, starting with the issue of the status of the public manager and the status of the public business sector.”
“The report says administrators were required to submit management contracts.
For Bruno Diaz, “the millionaire’s compensation, the millionaire’s contracts, negotiations between law firms without any scrutiny, this ruling with impunity, in inviolable privilege” shows the absence of “strong public administration that protects the national and state interests.”
“In that sense, there is a deviation from this report on issues that are really relevant to the core of the TAP topic, the TAP leadership, the options that have punished the company and its workers,” he said.
Until July 10, the parties may submit proposals for changing this preliminary version. Discussion and voting in the parliamentary commission of inquiry is scheduled for July 13, and its evaluation at the plenary session is scheduled for July 19.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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