BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua said this Saturday that stopping the privatization of TAP is “the only way to protect the strategic interests” of the country, supporting the veto of the President of the Republic on the government decree on the sale of the company’s capital. .
“We cannot fully agree with the arguments presented by the President of the Republic,” he said, before adding: “In fact, there is no guarantee that the strategic interest will be preserved in the privatization of TAR, there are no guarantees regarding the perimeter of privatization, the assets that are sold or are not for sale, and there are no guarantees of transparency in the privatization process.”
Speaking on the sidelines of the Bloc de Esquerda initiative on Praia Formosa in Funchal, Mariana Mortagua stressed that “the only way to avoid these risks is not to privatize” the company, given that “of all the companies that have been privatized, none of them have been good privatizations.”
On the other hand, the bloc leader said there was no point in privatizing a company that had been “rescued with public money” and was now “making a profit”, also warning that the government did not have the ability to maintain TAP’s “strategic interest” as it intended to privatize most of capital.
“The only way to protect strategic interests is to stop this privatization,” he said, and then reinforced: “And anyone who has doubts about this, go and see what happened to PT, go and see what happened to STT , go and see what happened to PT.” Look what happened to CIMPOR, look what happened to ANA, which runs the airports in Portugal, so we can talk about what kind of privatizations there were in this country, who benefited from them and what the country lost in public resources, but also in strategic control.”
On Friday, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza vetoed a government resolution setting out the terms of the reprivatization of TAP and asked the executive to clarify “the ability of the state to control and intervene in the activities of a strategic company such as TAP; the issue of alienation or acquisition of assets.” even before privatization; transparency of the entire operation.”
A short note published by the office of Prime Minister António Costa shortly after the President of the Republic’s veto said that “the Prime Minister notes the concerns of His Excellency the President of the Republic, which will be given due consideration.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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