Marcelo predicts the enactment of the privatization of TAP announced by the Government

This Saturday, the President of the Republic announced his intention to enact the TAP privatization decree and ruled out the possibility of selling the company above the announced 49%.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa returned to the topic he had already commented on on Friday, considering that “there were two confusions that arose, interpretative ones”.

"One is that because I vetoed the socialist bill, there could be a risk of a veto on this bill. Now, the bill itself, from what the Prime Minister explained to me and presented to the Council of Ministers, overcomes these difficulties," he said.

The second question concerns the question of whether the Government had a mental reservation here, in the sense that it now says it will sell X under certain conditions, but at a distant or subsequent stage it may sell further and sell it under other conditions, etc. To which the Head of State replied: "No."

"What we have is a proposed legal framework that will naturally be subject to review and enactment, which provides for several phases, but in this process it was announced," he added.

And he explained: “there are phases that take time, in which it is necessary to foresee that there will naturally be, for example, in the presentation of applications, in the evaluation of applications, in the right of interested parties to comment on the applications, that this will take more time, and that is why a year was foreseen”,

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed that the PSD/CDS-PP Government had no intention of “then having a flic-flac and changing the initial conditions”.

When asked whether he would then enact it, the President of the Republic responded: “Well, if it is exactly along the lines of what I just explained, there is no reason why, given its importance to the country, it should not be passed.”