Rio wants to reprivatize TAP. ″ It does not do any public service, it only serves Lisbon airport ″
The president of the PSD considers this Friday that “TAP is a disgrace”, it has been “a drain” of money, “it does not do any public service, it only serves Lisbon airport”, and stated that it wants to reprivatize the national air carrier .
Rui Rio was speaking on TVI, in a debate with the leader of the CDS-PP, Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, who also defended that TAP “should be privatized, as well as all transport companies owned by the State”.
Then, the president of the PSD considers “TAP is a disgrace”.
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Asked if the company is to be privatized, Rui Rio replied: “Yes, yes. Do you think that TAP is in this state, permanently bleeding public finances?”
According to the leader of the Social Democrats, “instead of serving the country as a whole, it doesn’t do any public service, just serve Lisbon airport, abandon Faro, abandon Porto, abandon the autonomous regions.”
“This doesn’t make any sense. TAP, which was a sucker for many years, the PSD / CDS government privatized and well, and Dr. António Costa, as soon as he arrived, made the first mistake, which was to partially nationalize, at the time, and now, as a result of this, everything was completely nationalized”, he added.