CDS business questions TAP and wants minister’s explanations in RA – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The CDS-PP expressed on Saturday its concern with the contours of the change in the TAP agreement and will request the presence of the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, the Assembly of the Republic (AR) with character of urgency.

“we look with some apprehension [business] and raises us at least five questions that we would like to see clarified,” he told Lusa the popular deputy Hélder Amaral.

“the first of these questions is that an agreement 50/50 seems to bring a risk of paralysis and deadlock in the decision of the company’s management. the second question is that probably the only private accepted this compromise because the state enters now with money that before did not enter and you need to know who guarantees the debt and guarantees gave the state for the necessary revision of the agreements with the banks, “he said.

There is” still a third question about who pays the new aircraft. they will be only the private or the state will be also called to participate, “he said, adding that the fourth question is related to the fact that you have spoken in agreement on the need for capital increase.

“I wonder if it does, how much it will cost to Portuguese taxpayers?” he asked.

Finally, the vice-president of the parliamentary group of the CDS-PP said that “the fifth doubt is that this agreement 50/50 gives power to certain union groups, which usually stop the company, which now have a capacity of pressure and blackmail from the state that previously did not have. “

Second Hélder Amaral, these issues “justify the CDS call, a matter of urgency, the Minister to Parliament”, so this application will be delivered on Monday in RA.

the deputy CDS PP currently chairs the parliamentary Committee for Economy, which meets on Wednesday, at which the call Pedro Marques should be discussed.

“I know that other parliamentary groups have already done so and therefore we sure we will hear the Minister so you can clarify these and other questions, “said Hélder Amaral, adding that he is confident that” there will be consensus “among the parties to the hearing of the minister.

This morning, the PSD expressed his “very concerned” about the contours of the amendment to the contract by TAP, saying they appear “opaque” and “raise questions”, and announced that it will require urgently the minister’s way of Infrastructure to parliament.

the government of António Costa will pay 1.9 million euros for the state get 50% of TAP (instead of 34%) as a result of negotiations with the Gateway consortium, which had 61 % of company capital and which is now 45% and may reach 50%, with the acquisition of capital available to workers.

the final agreement between the Atlantic Gateway and the state should be closed until April 30, getting the conditional sale the authorization of the Competition Authority and the National Authority for Civil Aviation (ANAC) – which had not yet given its final opinion to the previous version of privatization. – and the financial restructuring of debt TAP