Melo: Renationalization of TAP was an ideological quirk of the left

“Government companies or public capital cannot be managed with ideology. They must produce results. What we have with the renationalization of TAP is a fad of ideology from the left that has come to power,” Nuno Melo said in statements to journalists at the convention of mayors in Oliveira do Bairro.

The chairman of the CDS-PP expressed the expectation that the Commission of Inquiry would help TAP clarify the truth, as everything related to TAP “should be public”.

He explained to journalists that a reprivatization of the company means that “in the middle of the road there was no longer any sense for renationalisation, let alone perhaps for the more than 3.2 billion euros that taxpayers have already had to pay in favor of a company “.

Nuno Melo recalled that Portugal is made up of many public and private companies and noted that taxpayers’ money should be used with “much better criteria”.

Regarding the teachers’ demonstrations and strikes, he believed that they “have many valid claims” and that parents “have every reason to be concerned”.

The CDS-PP leader also stated that it is up to the government to resolve both the teachers’ allegations and the response to be given to parents.

For Nuno Melo, if the problem “continues, it means that the government is not responding to it”.

“The worst thing the government can do in this regard is to try to turn public opinion against teachers, on the contrary, it must respond to them,” he reaffirmed.

Nuno Melo also commented that a few days ago the government marked a year of absolute majority, referring to a review “in sight”.

“Right now we have a government because of this absolute majority, not for any merit of governance. Since March, in nine months, we have had the replacement of 13 governors and with each replacement we had a case correspondence, almost always with great institutional relevance and sometimes with criminal relevance,” he concluded.

The chairman of the CDS-PP also noted that the party’s programmatic congress will take place in the second half of 2023.