On Wednesday, the parliamentary affairs minister guaranteed that the state would only buy the private sector position in Lusa at a “fair price”, otherwise “there will be no negotiations at all”.
“We are doing some internal work, in particular at the level of the Treasury itself and finance. […] in order to assess the possibility of the state acquiring a share [na Lusa] which is not yours”, but “this is not a condition for anything”, assured Pedro Duarte to the parliamentary Committee on Culture, Communications, Youth and Sports in the framework of regulatory hearings.
“If we cannot do this, nothing will stop us and we will continue with the same ideas and intentions for Lusa,” Pedro Duarte continued.
Now, “we will in no way offer a price per share to private enterprises that is not strictly assessed as a fair price,” because in that case, “there will be no negotiations at all.”
“I don’t think this is driving Lusa’s activities,” the government official said.
The minister also said that “the government today does not understand what the advantage is” of having a private shareholder in Lus.
But “to be clear, this is not a problem for Lusa, fortunately the state has a majority, this is not a difficult problem, now from a conceptual point of view it is very difficult to understand why this private shareholder is here and what is adding,” he commented.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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