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Elements of the Parliamentary Commission of Economics and Public Works went to Türkiye. President denies relationship with the sentence of Ventura.
Miguel Santos (PSD), Pedro Coimbra (PS), Gonçalo Lage (PSD), Hugo Costa (PS) and Filipe Melo (arrives). You five deputies entered a plane towards Türkiye to see a airport.
The airport concerned is the already famous airport of Istanbul: The public contest started in 2013 and the structure was ready in 2018. record for works of this dimension.
Investment of 10 billion euroswith loan with guarantee of the State of Türkiye. Concession Agreement for construction and exploitation valid until 2042.
It was read in the posters of that time that this work “is not just an airport-it is a monument to victory.”
Not everything was a victory: the hurry for the work to be ready to have been responsible for Death of 27 workers during its construction.
Today has three clues, 1,500 movements per day and 110 movements per hour. Is still being expanded and, by 2027, should be completed and receive 200 million passengers per year (More than double the numbers now).
Perhaps because of the speed, perhaps because it was considered the best airport in the world by several experts, the Portuguese deputies of the Parliamentary Commission of Economics and Public Works went to the scene.
Or perhaps because of André Ventura’s famous phrase in the Assembly of the Republic, when he recalled that Istanbul Airport was ready in 5 years and: “Turks are not exactly known for being the most hardworking people in the world. What I ask is that because the hell took 50 years to decide, 15 to do how many to have work.
The arrival leader approached the 10 -year period for the new Lisbon airport, in a forecast announced by the government.
Almost a year later, more specifically last month, in February, the deputies were two days In Istanbul, on a trip fully paid by the committee’s own budget.
Miguel Santos (PSD) is the chairman of the commission and guaranteed to which this trip was not related to “the pantomine that Deputy André Ventura made in the parliament of disregard in the face of a friendly people with whom we have historical relations.”
The visit was made because there is similarities between the two cases: Istanbul’s former Istanbul Airport was also inside the city, and at the limit of capacity – and the Turkish government also advanced to a new one, transferring all trips to the new structure.
O official report It indicates that the visit was to “better empower members of the Commission, regarding the different decision -making processes underlying the construction of the future new Lisbon Airport”. The document will still be delivered to the government.
While in Istanbul, the five Portuguese deputies met with the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, the Airport administration, Turkish Airlines officials and the Turkish Parliamentary Commission.
There is Interested Turkish Promoters in signing public-private partnerships in Portugal, including aviation.
But Turkey’s Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, said he is “worried”: The management of the airport concession should not only be done to Vinci.
It is precisely Vinci that confirms that the construction of Luís de Camões Airport will cost 8.5 billion euros and will only be ready in 2037.
