“The budget of a company like TAP is not meant to do politics,” the lawyer replied to PS deputy Fátima Fonseca and then to Bernardo Blanco of IL, after assuming that there was pressure from the government regarding the company’s budget for 2020.
At the urging of Bernardo Blanco, Lacerda Machado said that then Secretary of State Alberto Souto de Miranda, from Pedro Nuno Santos’ ministerial team, had asked him to vote against the budget.
“I said I wouldn’t do it,” added Lacerda Machado, saying he explained to the government that the legitimacy of his decision “came from the General Assembly election,” but if the executive understood it, he would resign. the position.
The former non-executive director also said the situation “hasn’t happened again”.
Lacerda Machado left the TAP board in April 2021, before the end of his tenure.
According to Expresso, then Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos and Lacerda Machado were “on a collision course for months over the strategy for the company”, with António Costa even “intervening to correct the minister”.
Source: DN
