Tiago Petinga / Lusa
National Defense Minister Nuno Melo
The government wants to participate between 35 and 51% in future ammunition factory and create more than 100 jobs. The intention was expressed this Tuesday by the Minister of Defense Nuno Melo.
Nuno Melo He said, in a hearing in the Assembly of the Republic, that the government intends to have a participation between 35 to 51% in a future ammunition factory.
According to the Minister of Defense, the investment should be around 45 million euros and Create “more than 100 jobs”.
“What we want is a significant stake between 35% and 51%. The factory may be operational in about three years. The expected investment, it is supposed, will be around 45 million euros, and there are also possibilities of deliveries in kind, but with a creation of over 100 jobs, ”said Nuno Melo.
In response to questions from the Socialist Party (PS), Nuno Melo began by criticizing “the hasty form” as socialists “generated the public thing”, warning that This project will not be created to “become a hole”.
“We want to go to projects, but sufficiently thought, which means we don’t want a ammunition factory by a ammunition factory. We want a company that is able to create ammunition, generating profit so that it then does not turn into a hole to the state, ”he said.
The government expects an investment recovery between five and ten years“Given a business plan that is obviously also being treated,” said Nuno Melo.
The minister added that there is a memorandum of understanding that is being worked on, a technical group to analyze “logistics details”, and projects to be prepared that will be presented “in your time”.
“Ours is the time we consider necessary not to guarantee holes in the state, because, unfortunately, the state has to bear enough holes that then generate damage and not revenue,” he added in Nova ‘Pin’.
