On the same day that the PSD discussed the government’s announced intention to re-privatize TAP, the Social Democratic leader reiterated in Estremoz this Thursday that the “nationalization of the airline in 2016 was a political and economic crime”. Luís Montenegro argued that Prime Minister António Costa “has now confessed to the crime” when he announced his intention to re-privatize the company.
Luís Montenegro emphasized the “deliberation” with which the government, at a time when the country was growing six years ago, took the decision to nationalize half of TAP’s capital and transfer “responsibility for the operation” to the state. “As a result, taxpayers have already paid more than three billion euros. And that cannot go unnoticed,” he emphasized, insisting on the idea of ”irresponsibility” of António Costa and the Minister of Infrastructure, Pedro Nuno Santos.
Anyone who has heard António Costa emphatically say that TAP should be state owned and Pedro Nuno Santos that the state should be in command of TAP and compare with what they are saying now can only say: either they are not good or they do not know what to do with taxpayers’ money,” he said.
For the Social Democratic leader, who continues his visit to the Évora district: “TAP for socialists is a bottomless pit”, but “you can’t play with thousands and millions of euros from taxpayers and have the audacity to shift the responsibility to the other parties”.
health failure
Luís Montenegro was also confronted by journalists with statements by the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, who assumed that a decision on the closure of maternity hospitals will only be made before the year. “I’m very sorry to start talking about the shutdown of the National Health Service emergency services,” he said, recalling that the PS always waved the “stigma” of the shutdown of services at the PSD.
Visiting one of the wineries in Estremoz, Montenegro also found it “remarkable” that the health minister is in charge of the new executive committee of the SNS, headed by Fernando Araújo. “As I said before, we get a minister and a shadow minister who subscribe to mutual responsibilities. And where are the Portuguese in the midst of all this?’ – he asked.
“The PS has failed in health policy, but it has four years to do it differently. But the prime minister crushed all expectations when he said he would change the protagonist, but the policy remained the same,” said the social security minister. democratic leader.
Source: DN
