Economist and professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Gesner Oliveira said, this Sunday (20), in an interview with CNNthat the speech of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), discarding the privatization of state-owned companies in case he returns to the Presidency of the Republic, is “very empty”.
Speaking during the PT affiliation event of former Paraná governor Roberto Requião, last Friday (18), in Curitiba, Lula said that the people would govern the country again and that Petrobras would once again belong to Brazilians.
“We are not going to privatize Correios, we are not going to privatize Banco do Brasil, Caixa Econômica. We are not going to destroy the BNDES. We are not going to privatize Eletrobras. They have to know, and we have to say now what we want to do, because I am no longer old enough to lie to the Brazilian people.”
For Gesner, “from the point of view of what really matters for privatization, it seems to me to be a very empty discourse. In fact, it is a speech that in Latin America and Brazil that catches on well because it deceives the population by saying that Petrobras is the patrimony of the people, that the Post Office is the patrimony of the people. When in fact, what the population wants are good services and investments.”
“It’s more of a campaign speech, it has very little substance from the point of view of a government program. I don’t think he really thinks of a show that would represent a huge step backwards from a century ago. To a large extent, it doesn’t make much sense to say that the price of fuel has nothing to do with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, even Petrobras’ pricing policy is out of step with international parity,” he continued.
For the economist, there are similarities between the current government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and Lula. “Since the government has not made much effort to privatize the Post Office, this is an issue that is at a standstill in the Senate. In relation to Eletrobras, the schedule seems to be carried out before the new government takes over and, in any case, it still depends on a phase of analysis by the TCU”.
Eletrobras is in the capitalization process approved by Congress in 2021 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2022. The process was approved by the TCU, despite the disagreement of Minister Vital do Rêgo, and by the company’s shareholders at the General Meeting Extraordinary (AGE).
Source: CNN Brasil
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