Tradition? Anti-military oposition? More powerful civil government overview?
Anyway, if you were to do a presentation to the Portuguese politicians (from any political party) and told them that by privatizing SAR they could receive bribes from companies competing for SAR contracts or by creating a semi-private company where they could place in a management position anyone that would like, for example a cousin or friend, they would immediatelly start privatizing it.
Privatization most times is less for economic reasons and more for political/corruption reasons. In a world where citizens are opposing more and more to the military you see politicians take advantadge of that to gain votes or to simply pull their own schemes to make easy money.
Going back to that scenario that put in regards to SAR, it has already happened in the past with the Portuguese Air Force’s role in firefigthing during the summer, where politicians put a stop to the use of C-130 doing firefigthing missions using kits in favor of contracting more aircraft to certain companies. This at a level that allowed for the past decade companies to even fix prices between them for renting helicopters and airplanes to the government.
Cheers,
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