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The Infrastructure Minister wanted to bring the TAP restructuring plan to a vote in Parliament and was not “very satisfied” with the Prime Minister’s decision to curb that intention. The guarantee was given by the PSD parliamentary leader, Adão Silva, after the meeting with Pedro Nuno Santos about TAP.
“The minister understood that the matter should go to Parliament,” said Adão Silva, after almost two hours of meeting with the government official, after journalists asked him if Pedro Nuno Santos assumed this intention during the meeting, which was developed at the door. closed.
Bringing the TAP plan to Parliament for a vote is not just a clear escape from government responsibilities. You are setting a very serious precedent. In this way, we can have any governmental matter to be voted on in plenary, with all the consequences that this entails.
– Rui Rio (@RuiRioPSD) December 9, 2020
The leader of the Social Democratic caucus also said the minister was unhappy with the prime minister’s decision. “Yes, yes, the minister told us that he was not very comforted, nor comfortable, he was not very satisfied with the Prime Minister’s decision, that is true,” he said. Adão Silva argued that Was a cheep by Rui Rio, posted yesterday, which “killed” Minister Pedro Nuno Santos’ strategy of putting the TAP restructuring plan to a vote in the Assembly of the Republic, comparing the comment to a soap opera by Camilo Castelo Branco entitled “Jokes that kill.”
Na network social Twitter, the PSD leader considered that the preparation of the plan and its approval is the responsibility of the Government and that if the executive sends him to Parliament, he is “shirking his responsibilities.” The Prime Minister came today to reiterate that the TAP plan is the responsibility of the Government.
Adão Silva specifically referred to a “dissent between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Guardianship” regarding the vote on the plan and argued that the 3,200 million planned for the company in the coming years must be available with “rigor, morality and transparency ”. “It is money that comes out of the Portuguese pocket,” he said, adding that it is necessary to prevent TAP from becoming a kind of “New Bank with wings.” According to Adão Silva, who was accompanied at the meeting by deputies Cristóvão Norte and Afonso Oliveira, the plan is a “still very embryonic document” and that the negotiation with Brussels should conclude in February 2021.
Before the PSD made this “dissent” public, António Costa had not left many doubts. speaking from Brussels, at the entrance of the European Council in Brussels, the Prime Minister said that whoever announced that the restructuring plan was to be presented to Parliament was wrong: “I think whoever announced it, either had a bad source, or precipitated in what was the perspective of the government’s action ”.
But the Prime Minister said more: “Who governs in Portugal is the Government, and that means to govern in good and in bad, it means to govern when popular measures are taken and to govern when unpopular measures are taken. It is part of the government’s action and it is not worth the government to have the illusion that it can transfer to another organ of sovereignty what corresponds only to it. In fact, it would be a mistake to do so. “
For António Costa, voting on the plan in the Assembly of the Republic, as Pedro Nuno Santos wanted, “it would be a leap that would not take into account the division of powers in the constitutional system”.
On Sunday, in his comment space on the SIC, Marques Mendes said that the Government intended to debate in Parliament the restructuring plan for TAP, which should be presented next Thursday in Brussels.
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