The accounts of the damage that the roadblocks by bolsonaristas dissatisfied with the results of the polls should bring to the Brazilian economy only increase. Data from the Brazilian Association of Wholesalers and Distributors (Abad), to which the CNN Brazil had access, show that the sector expects to lose at least R$ 700 thousand each day that the roads are blocked.
According to Leonardo Miguel Severeni, president of the association, the value can reach up to R$ 1 million if the stoppages continue. “We made a simple calculation, took the sector’s movement per day and measured the impact on cash flow. Because, if what I agreed to deliver today, I end up delivering tomorrow, just with daily interest I lose from R$ 700 thousand to R$ 1 million. And look, I’m not counting retail, it’s a domino effect”, he explains.
This Tuesday (1st), the entity had already released a note asking the government to intensify actions to free up the roads. Abad represents wholesale and distribution companies that sell from food, beverages and hygiene products, to medicines, and has a fleet of 100,000 trucks.
Since the end of Sunday (30), truck drivers and protesters have paralyzed traffic on highways across the country in protest of the results of the polls, which elected PT Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the next president of Brazil. Convoked in WhatsApp groups and social networks, the anti-democratic acts call for “military intervention” and “civilian resistance”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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