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Former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho today addressed the controversy surrounding the restructuring of TAP, stating that the State is preparing to inject into a resized airline funds that it lacks in health, education and the economy “without explaining the country. that it will do so because “it reversed a privatization that several governments tried to carry out but only one succeeded.”
“This bill that the government is preparing to endorse will be endorsed for many years by many governments, and too many taxpayers that the State does not see today with respect or parsimony,” charged Passos Coelho.
The former governor and former leader of the PSD intervened at the end of the conference “Globalization in Portuguese: African revolutions and continuities”, in Lisbon, within the framework of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the birth of businessman Alfredo da Silva, founder of the CUF Group. [Companhia União Fabril]. For the former prime minister, the TAP case is “emblematic of the unsustainable lightness of public irresponsibility in conduct in the collective interest”, considering that it is “a duty of public conscience” to underline “the seriousness of the situation.”
“Now that TAP is threatened in its sustainability, instead of being the private ones, who took the risk of investing in privatizations”, to answer for the results before the banks and other creditors, it is the State and the taxpayers “who have to assume the losses that they can almost only share with the employees of the company, which seems to have been renationalized ”, he criticized.
Inaction and avoidance of responsibilities in the Ihor case
Passos Coelho also accused the Government of “incomprehensible inaction” and “flight from responsibility” in the case of Ihor Homeniuk, the Ukrainian citizen murdered in the Aliens and Borders Service at Lisbon airport.
After months of incomprehensible inaction after the facts became known, and with the authority of the State seriously shaken and the trust in public institutions pinched, everything has served to try to hide what it does not hide, the greatest difficulty in admitting the serious failures that were incurred by not having acted promptly, diligently and with a sense of defense of the public interest, ”he said.
In his statements, published by various media, Pedro Passos Coelho also pointed out an “incomprehensible reluctance to defend the State from escaping the responsibilities of its leaders who previously preferred to launch the unjust reproach to the entire security force in question, pointing out for their emptying functional instead of the simple and fast assumption of responsibilities ”.
Ihor Homeniuk was allegedly the victim of violent attacks by three SEF inspectors, accused of qualified murder, with the alleged complicity or cover-up of 12 other inspectors. The sentence in this case will begin on January 20.
Nine months after the alleged murder, the director of the SEF, Cristina Gatões, resigned last week after some opposition parties demanded political consequences of this case, and Eduardo Cabrita considered that she “did well to understand that she should cease in his functions “and that he could not lead the organization’s restructuring process.
(news updated at 10:43 pm)
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