TACV Cabo Verde Airlines will be the subject of an official request for information from the government on the part of opposition party MpD, according to the party’s parliamentary leader, Fernando Elísio Freire. The news reported in last week’s edition of A Semana, according to which the government is going to inject 500 million escudos in emergency funds into the company, appears to be the main motive for the MpD’s initiative.

In his official communication to the National Assembly chair, Fernando Elísio Freire recalled the promises made by the executive to “clean up” TACV, as a result of which the government contracted consulting company Sterling Merchant to “restructure the company and present options for its privatization within a one-year deadline.”

“As this is a company of exclusively public capital with the State as its sole shareholder, it is the government’s job to assure that the management of the company converges with the general interests of the country, by taking on its double responsibility as shareholder and authority in the domain of public policy for the air transportation sector for the options and results presented by the company,” affirms the MpD’s parliamentary leader, in whose view the situation at TACV, far from improving, has deteriorated even further.

The MpD plans to question the government as to the calendar for the privatization of the company, the model and legal coverage for its privatization, the solutions being sought for under-developed inter-island flight routes (Maio and São Nicolau, for example), the solutions being sought in order to reduce the current prohibitively high fares on inter-island flights, and the assurances it is seeking to guarantee public air transportation service in the post-privatization era.

Source: A Semana