BE coordinator Mariana Mortágua defended on Saturday that there is no reason to sell TAP, now that the company has been saved with taxpayer money and the sacrifices of its employees.
“Taxpayers paid for the bailout of TAP, TAP employees paid for the bailout of TAP, with their salaries, with their sacrifices. TAP makes a profit. What is the reason to transfer these profits to a private investor. Now that the company has been saved, now that it is functioning, why privatize it”Mariana Mortágua asked.
The BE coordinator reacted this way when confronted with the news released today that TAP is worth just over a billion euros, about a third of the funds injected into the company by the Portuguese state.
According to the newspaper Correio da Manhã, a preliminary estimate gives TAP a value of just over one billion euros, representing 31% of the 3.2 billion euros invested by taxpayers in the Portuguese airline.
Mariana Mortágua, addressing journalists during a visit to several tourist resorts on the Alentejo coast, between Troia and Melides, also recalled the Prime Minister’s speech “about Portuguese caravels, the need to protect TAP’s strategic interests and properties”.
“There is no reason to sell TAP. And it is necessary to put an end to the compulsion that governments have, and also the Socialist Party government, to market and offer for sale everything that is the common heritage. of the Portuguese and those living in Portugal,” he concluded.
Source: DN
