Bolsonaro says he would sign CPI to investigate Petrobras if he were deputy

President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said this Wednesday (22) that, if he were a deputy, he would sign a request to open a CPI to investigate Petrobras.

The representative criticized the successive increases in fuel prices and said that the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry to investigate the work of the state-owned oil company would be positive.

“I would sign this CPI if I were a deputy to see, among other things, how the fuel price composition at Petrobras is. started with Lula, lost R$ 1 billion and do not refine a barrel of oil”, he said in an interview with Rádio Itatiaia.

With the statement, the president tries to help the mission of members of the government base to seek support from colleagues in the Legislative to open the commission. Despite resistance from part of Bolsonaro’s supporters in the Chamber, he has insisted on the idea of ​​opening the CPI.

Last Monday (20), he had also commented on the matter and talked about why he was in favor of the CPI, even though he was responsible for appointing the leaders of the state-owned company.

“I’m arranging a CPI at Petrobras. ‘Oh, you appointed the president’. Yes, but I want a CPI, hey, why not? Investigate the guy, man. If nothing comes of it, fine. Petrobras are an abuse,” he said.

In the interview given on Wednesday, Bolsonaro also said that he has seen results in the request he made to supermarket chains to reduce the profit margin on basic basket items. He denied that his request had anything to do with pricing.

“The Big Box market is R$10.89, it was R$13. Let’s talk again to see if it goes into single digits. Is it expensive? It’s expensive, I know that,” he said.

The president also said that he discovered that there is no black box at BNDES as he claimed when he was a parliamentarian.

“I used to speak in the past when I was a deputy in the BNDES’ black box. There is no black box, in fact they were provisional measures that, at the time of voting, there in the leg, articles were placed that gave the BNDES the guarantee to lend to these countries, because the guarantor was our treasure”, he said.

As a deputy, Bolsonaro had the responsibility to vote on these rules in which, according to him, those passages that gave power to the state bank were included. The president, however, did not explain why he did not protest the provisional measures when he was in the legislature.