“I make a call so that the entire productive chain, so that the products of the basic basket have the least possible profit and thus meet a large part of the population, especially the most humble”Bolsonaro said in a videoconference before the forum of the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (Abras) that takes place in São Paulo.
Bolsonaro sent the message from Los Angeles, United States, where he is participating in the Summit of the Americas, but with an eye on the country’s social climate, where all the polls consider the economic and social situation to be the main theme of the campaign. election for the presidential elections on October 2, in which re-election is at stake against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The request of the far-right president, who refuses to intervene in the food and fuel price system, coincides with the disclosure by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) of the inflation figures for May in the country, which was 0.47%, with which the increase in prices reached 11.73% in the accumulated of the last 12 months.
Despite the fact that May showed a slowdown in inflation, Bolsonaro said the increases continued in basic foods for families such as oils, eggs, milk, sugar and coffee.
“I make this request knowing that you have already reduced profit margins, but I ask you to collaborate a little more by reducing the profit on the products of the basic basket. If you attend to my request, I thank you very much. If you do not, it is because you really it’s not possible”assured.
Bolsonaro attributed the increase in food prices to the pandemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which, according to him, “may end shortly.”
In the accumulated of 2022, inflation in Brazil stood at 4.78%, against 3.5%, which was the inflation target for this year projected by the Central Bank.
This is the second time that Bolsonaro has asked supermarket owners to lower prices. He had already done so in 2020, at the start of the pandemic, asking for “patriotism so as not to increase prices.”
According to a study by Rede Penssan, which brings together non-governmental organizations specializing in inequality, 33.1 million Brazilians go hungry every day and 6 out of 10 (125 million) have food security problems.
Source: Ambito
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