Former TAP administrator Diogo Lacerda Machado suggested this Thursday that Secretary of State Alberto Souto de Miranda had asked him to vote against the airline’s 2020 budget.
“The budget of a company like TAP is not meant for politics,” the lawyer replied to MP Fatima Fonseca from PS and then Bernardo Blanco from IL, suggesting that the government was putting pressure on the company’s budget to 2020.
Faced with Bernardo Blanco’s insistence, Lacerda Machado claimed that then Secretary of State Alberto Souto de Miranda of Pedro Nuno Santos’ ministerial team had asked him to vote against the budget.
“I said I wouldn’t do it,” Lacerda Machado added, saying he explained to the government that the legitimacy of his decision “follows from the elections in the general assembly,” but if the executive had realized this, he would have resigned. Position.
The former non-executive director also said that the situation “didn’t happen again”.
Lacerda Machado left the TAP administration in April 2021, before the end of his term.
According to Expresso, then-infrastructure minister Pedro Nuno Santos and Lacerda Machado “did not agree for months on the company’s strategy,” with António Costa even “stepping in to correct the minister.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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