Pedro Nuno Santos says he was the only one in the last 50 years to let TAP and CP make a profit

Former Infrastructure and Housing Minister Pedro Nuno Santos begins by speaking to the Economy Committee on Tuesday on the issue of TAP’s privatization. “It’s good that the company belonged to the private sector. And it’s bad that the company belonged to the state. This is the clearest way to sum up 2015.“, throws.

Pedro Nuno Santos alleges that PSD made “a bad deal in TAP that hurt the public interest”. “This was another bad deal that the state made under the leadership of PSD and CDS,” he says.

The former infrastructure minister said it was “possible” that the country had been swindled with the Airbus deal for TAP and that if this proved to be true, a contract renegotiation should be demanded.

“The check is serious enough that we ignored it and continued to do checks, as if we did not know that there was a check that says that it is possible that we were all deceived. And I tell everyone: that TAP was deceived, that the SDP government was deceived, that the country was deceived,” he said.

The former ruler added that if the veracity of the evidence provided in the verification of the Airbus deal by former TAP private shareholder David Neeleman is confirmed, indicating the possibility that the airline is paying above the market price, you should “demand contract renegotiation.”

Pedro Nuno Santos stated that in the last 50 years “there is no other minister” who “can boast” of having left his duties in TAP and CP “having made a profit”, and emphasized “great pride in the work” done by the government for ” save TAP” by proving that “TAP, a public company, can make a profit.”

“It was no coincidence, because in the year that TAP made a profit, we also managed to make a profit for CP for the first time in our history. There is no longer a government or a minister who, in the last 50 years, can boast of having left his duties with TAP and CP, making a profit,” he stressed.