Bolsonaro charged like this against the increases determined by the open capital state company last week, which expanded 25% the price of diesel and 18% that of fuelsgenerating, for example, queues in Argentine border cities such as Puerto Iguazú, Paso de los Libres and Santo Tomé for Brazilians to load gasoline at less than half the value they pay in their country.
Bolsonaro is responsible for appointing the president of Petrobras, who is the retired general Joaquim Silva e Lunabut despite the fact that it has the legal tools to intervene, it has preferred that the company continue its international price application policy in the domestic marketas has been the case since former president Dilma Rousseff was ousted in 2016.
Bolsonaro again threatened the continuity of General Silva e Luna, defended by the ultraliberals in the government, part of the military wing and those who respond to the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes.
“There is the possibility (of being removed from office). All officials can leave. All can be changed for reasons of productivity, failures or omissions in the position”said the president of the extreme right.
The president was irritated because the Petrobras increase was announced hours before the head of state enacted a law to reduce the tax burden on fuels.
In addition, he lashed out at the company’s extraordinary profit distributed among its private shareholders, especially the international ones, as a result of the policy of increasing fuels, including cooking gas in cylinders, which has led part of the poorest population to return to cook with firewood
The privatization Petrobras is a promise from Minister Guedes to Bolsonaro in case he is re-elected, within the framework of a disinvestment policy that the oil company, the axis of the Lava Jato corruption scandal, has undertaken since the government of Michel Temer.
The current government, meanwhile, privatized the service station network which was key to regulation of the final price to the consumerBR Distribuidora, and intends this year to sell to the private sector the electrical giant Eletrobras and Correios, the largest logistics and postal company in Latin America.
In the pre-campaign for the presidential elections in October, the opposition leader and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a favorite in the polls, announced that he intends to intervene in Petrobras’ price policy if he returns to power on January 1, 2023.
Source: Ambito
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