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The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, said in Parliament on Tuesday that the CTT’s concession contract for the universal postal service, which ends at the end of this year, will be extended.
“We are working with private companies so that universal service can continue,” said the minister, adding that “at this stage, due to the pandemic crisis, we have a negotiation work that is still ongoing.” “There will have to be an extension of that contract until we can close the next contract,” he said.
The minister, who once again said that CTT ownership does not exclude scenarios, also guaranteed that the size paid to the regional and local press “must be guaranteed in this concession contract.”
“We do not want to be subject to any time pressure,” said the minister, justifying that “negotiations are not easy and the context is not the easiest for the state itself.”
“The current contract will be extended. The Portuguese State wants to ensure that essentially the universal service will continue and we will always defend the interests of the Portuguese and the continuity of the service,” said Pedro Nuno Sanos, adding that “CTT, a private company, in this At this moment you know that the Portuguese State and Government will defend the interests of the Portuguese very well and very assertively ”.
“My expectation is that we have no problems in this negotiation,” he said.
Last week, the president of CTT had already said that he was negotiating with the government to expand the provision of the universal postal service. “What is being discussed and discussed are precisely the conditions to extend the current contract,” João Bento said in statements to Lusa. “We are negotiating precisely with the Government what will be the conditions for this extension”, which is “temporary”, and “also the conditions for the launch of the contest” for the provision of the universal postal service, he explained.
Regarding the tender for the new concession contract, he assured that “we are sure that we will present ourselves as long as, as I have always said and continue to say, the conditions are sustainable for the operator, conditions that no longer exist in the current contract and, therefore, so much, on that point of view, fortunately comes to an end “.
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