This Thursday, the Minister of Economy and the Sea considered that Iberia “is not a good solution” for the privatization of TAP, but said that if “the process is competitive” and with many stakeholders, there will be a “better exit”.
António Costa Silva’s interview with the Spanish newspaper Eleconomista.es in January, this time by BE MP Mariana Mortagua, was once again discussed in the sectoral policy debate in Parliament, who felt that “it’s not clear”. that two government ministers, the Minister of Economy and Minister Fernando Medina, are traveling to Spain with the Spanish flag on their backs to tell the Spanish press that it would be positive if Iberia bought TAP.”
“I especially think that Iberia is not a very good solution,” admitted António Costa Silva, noting that “if there are proposals from Iberia, Lufthansa or other companies, and the process is competitive, it is very likely that the exit that is most profitable for all this dossier.”
As he had previously replied to Chege, the Minister of Economy and the Sea insisted that the government was “trying to involve the maximum number of stakeholders in TAP so that public money that was invested in a certain way is returned, or at least part of this money.”
“The privatization process has been decided and announced by the government, it is ongoing, and it depends on me, when I am in different countries, to attract the largest number of interested persons to our airline,” he stressed, specifying that this dossier is not your responsibility.
Mariana Mortagua stated in her question that “no one takes this position because the Portuguese state has invested 3.2 billion euros in TAP”, and warned that “the day TAP is sold to a Spanish company, the Lisbon hub will disappear, and therefore TAP’s strategic interest will disappear.”
In the aforementioned interview with Spanish publication Costa Silva acknowledged the benefits of TAP’s possible purchase by the group that owns the Iberia airline due to links with Madrid and the boost it could give to tourism.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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