Sunday, August 16, 2015

Outcome of the sub STCP and Metro do Porto is “major defeat of the government” – Daily News – Lisbon

The FECTRANS said today that the outcome of the sub Metro do Porto and STCP is a “major defeat of the government” and considered that the executive has no standing to launch new tenders.

The Ministry of Economy confirmed on Friday Lusa that the Spanish consortium TMB / Moventis did not give the bank guarantee required to take the road of operation STCP, which makes fall the sub for 10 years that company and Metro do Porto, adding that the contest will be re-released “short-term”, preferably this month

In a statement today, the FECTRANS. – Federation of Transport and Communications of Trade Unions (CGTP) states that “the announcement of the cancellation of the privatization tender / sub STCP [Collective Transport Company of Porto] and Metro do Porto is a huge defeat of the government, which set as its main objective the destruction of the public transport service. “

The Federation considers that the government “has no legitimacy to launch new tenders” and argues that “to defend the country’s interests, this process must die here.”

The outcome of this process is, for FECTRANS, “a victory of all “who” believed it was possible to halt this offensive against the country’s interests, of transport users and workers in the sector, and is certainly an encouragement and confidence to the struggle in other companies subject to the same governmental action ” .

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