The PCP will request a hearing from the Minister of Infrastructure and those responsible for da Vinci regarding the new Lisbon airport, intending to know its schedule, construction and financing model, and criticizing the expansion of Portela’s capacity.
At a press conference at the end of the PCP parliamentary days in Forte de Santiago de Sesimbra, the party’s parliamentary leader Paula Santos said that “instead of negotiating new and larger counterparts for the multinational owner of ANA”, the government should “prevail national interests over Da Vinci’s profit goals.”
“There is an urgent need to give priority to the construction of a new airport at Campo de Tiro de Alcochete rather than expanding the capacity of Portela Airport, to end public-private partnerships (whether at airports crossing the Tagus or others in the sector) and to return to ANA Aeroportos under public control,” he said.
According to Paula Santos, “the country urgently needs to move to the phased construction of a new Lisbon airport at Campo de Tiro de Alcochete, a third crossing of the Tagus and a high-speed link between Lisbon.”
“The parliamentary group of the PKP will take the initiative to conduct hearings that will contribute to the full identification of the situation and the measures necessary for the implementation of the projects,” he added.
In this context, the party will demand to hear the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, as well as those responsible for ANA/Vinci and Portugal’s infrastructure, so that “the country knows the calendar, the construction model and the financing.” declared infrastructures”.
Asked whether the PCP agreed with the 10-year time frame set by the government to bring the airport into operation, Paula Santos responded that the executive’s statements highlighted that “the priority is that, despite the construction of a new airport in Campo de Tiro de Alcochete is an expansion of Portela Airport’s capacity.”
“This is not what is necessary: it’s just the opposite. (…) All priority, all efforts, all commitments should be directed to construction, to advancing the process of building a new airport in Campo de Tiro de Alcochete, and not to expanding the capacity of Portela Airport,” he said.
The parliamentary leader of the PKP also criticized the fact that the government in its speeches acknowledged the “negotiations and compensation of Vinci.”
“We want to understand what it is all about, because the one who benefits from the expansion of Portela airport capacity is Vinci, who has never shown any interest and has done everything to ensure that Campo de Tiro de “Alcochete will not have a new airport,” he criticized.
Paula Santos noted that Vinci intends to “maximize its profits with Lisbon Airport” and added that “expanding Portela’s capacity with all the risks associated with it, which means noise, public health impacts and environmental impacts, is wrong path”.
At this press conference, Paula Santos emphasized that the PCP has long advocated the construction of a new Lisbon airport in Campo de Tiro de Alcochete, as well as the creation of a third road and rail crossing of the Tagus between Barreiro and Lisbon. , as well as high speed to Madrid.
“Here we want to welcome all those who, like us, have not given up the fight for a fair and adequate solution to these investments, in particular the new Lisbon airport,” he said.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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