Despite the truck driver assistance offered by the Bolsonaro government to drivers since last month, leaders in the category are not betting on drivers joining the Bolsonarista demonstrations scheduled for the September 7 holiday.
Wallace Landim, aka Chorão, one of the main leaders of the 2018 strike and now a candidate for federal deputy for the PSD, says that the president’s supporters represent only a portion of the professionals in the field.
Plínio Dias, president of the CNTRC (National Council for Road Cargo Transport), also says that he has not seen autonomous truck drivers show support for the demonstrations scheduled for Wednesday (7th).
Specialists in the transport sector who have followed the gestures of the category in recent years point out that it is not so easy to estimate a scenario because unexpected reactions can arise, as happened a year ago.
After the coup-based acts carried out in support of Bolsonaro on the 2021 holiday, truck drivers politically aligned with the president began a series of attempts to interdict roads with agendas of attack on the STF.
At the time, there was also no formal support from truck drivers’ entities, but blockades spread across several states the next day.
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