The wiretap captured former Prime Minister António Costa on the phone with João Galamba, then infrastructure minister who was under the wiretap, ordering the resignation of TAP’s CEO. Christina Ourmier-Widener for political reasons. “People need to feel that the government doesn’t agree to this kind of crap,” Costa said, according to CNN Portugal. “If this becomes hell, it’s either us or her,” he added.
“We can’t get away with keeping you politically, and you can’t get away with it politically,” the former prime minister also said in the interview, contradicting the government’s official justification for the dismissal at the time. Urmier-Widener.
In the same conversation, Costa also mentioned that he had a solution for the management of TAP: SATA’s Luis Rodriguez, “a very nice guy” and a “factor of calm and decompression.” Rodriguez currently heads the airline.
The former CEO of TAP is demanding compensation of approximately six million euros in connection with her dismissal.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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