According to the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Management of State Assets and Participation (IGAPE), Álvaro Fernão, a meeting is scheduled for next week to analyse which assets will be privatised and which others may eventually be removed from the list for various reasons.
"The privatisation process has been smooth and good. So far, 103 assets have been privatised since the start of this programme [2019]. We have some issues to look at more closely, we have some financial defaults, we also have defaults in the operationalisation, that is, the contractualisation is that the successful bidders put these assets at the service of the economy", the official told the press at the end of the first ordinary meeting of the National Interministerial Commission of the Privatisation Programme (Propriv).
Álvaro Fernão stressed that there is a record of some assets privatised two or three years ago that are no longer operational.
"Therefore, we will work closely with businesspeople to understand what is happening and to mitigate this process and quickly place these assets at the service of the economy", stressed the president of IGAPE, highlighting that the committee instructed the technical groups to place these assets "quickly at the service of the economy".
"It is worth noting that in the processes we have handled to date we have managed to create more than 3,000 direct jobs, not counting the indirect ones that we have managed to maintain and add to this workforce, but Propriv's biggest challenge today continues to be the operationalization of some assets that remain inoperative", he noted.
The technical group supporting the committee was instructed to meet monthly and to monitor this process more closely, especially in the preparation of fixed assets for their privatization.
