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State-owned companies criminalize politicians, but the private sector is the one who commits crime, says Gleisi

Federal deputy Gleisi Hoffmann (PT-PR) criticized the State-Owned Companies Law and stated that the legislation criminalizes politics, but “it is the private sector who commits crime”.

The speech took place in the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday (22).

“It says in the State-Owned Companies Law that no one who participated in an election four years ago can be appointed director of Petrobras, or director of a state-owned company. He cannot be a politician, he cannot be a party leader. As if being a politician was a crime. We know how it works. Who practices crime, who comes up, is the private initiative. That’s what happens. It is the private initiative that corrupts,” said the deputy.

“And then they did this: it cannot be political. And it cannot have any decision that goes against the economic interests of the company and its shareholders. It doesn’t say anything about social interest. As if a state-owned company was merely a private company,” he added.

Gleisi, who is also the national president of the PT, said he agrees with a possible change in the Law on State-owned companies – an idea supported by allies of the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and by the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira, amid the increase in fuel prices. .

The State-Owned Companies Law was created in 2016, under Michel Temer, and was designed with the objective of creating a protection between company policy and governance.

THE CNN contacted deputy Gleisi Hoffmann about the speech and awaits a return.

“Petrobras was built with the blood and sweat of the Brazilian people. There is public money there, tax money, there is state investment. So we agreed to change the State-Owned Companies Act. If Lira wants to bring the State-owned Companies Act [para o plenário], we agree, because it is a law that criminalizes politics. Now they are seeing what they did. And it’s not to indicate a politician, it’s to stop this story, ”she said.

The federal deputy also stated that the state “is subordinate to the government”.

“Most of Petrobras’ shares belong to the government. So, the government elected by the people, having a political line, has to give the line to the state-owned companies. And these companies have to be placed at the service of development, not at the service of a group of minority shareholders who want to make a profit. Where is the profit of the Brazilian people? It’s paying for expensive gasoline, expensive diesel, expensive cooking gas. It’s wrong, it’s embarrassing.”

*Posted by Marcelo Tuvuca

Source: CNN Brasil

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