The change in command of Petrobras, announced this Monday (28), did not please truck drivers.
The president of the CNTRC (National Council for Road Cargo Transport), Plínio Dias, is suspicious of the government’s maneuver to escape the focus.
“While the spotlight goes to this focus, the fuel remains high. We are paying dearly and even doing this process takes time. For us, it didn’t result in anything”, he says.
For Wallace Landim, the Chorão, leader of the truckers in the 2018 strike, the federal government is only buying time.
“Six months from now, it will change again. What the president is doing is a fallacy. The narrative is the same as when Roberto Castello Branco was fired last year. of PPI [que atrela o preço do combustível no Brasil ao dólar]nothing will change”, says Chorão.
The future of Petrobras’ fuel pricing policy is on the roadmap for the election campaign. At an event with oil workers in Rio, former president Lula criticized parity.
Bolsonaro has already defended changes in the price policy, but said he has no interference over the state-owned company, which truck drivers question.
“As he has the authority to remove and replace the president of Petrobras whenever he wants, he can, yes, end the PPI. In the same way that Temer did when he implemented the policy”, says Chorão, who has scheduled meetings with presidential candidates to debate the question.
So far, one of the main leaders of the category does not declare support for anyone in the October elections. “We are hardened by promises. We believe in Bolsonaro and the only thing that the category received in this government was Roda Bem Caminhoneiro. Otherwise, it was abandoned”, says Chorão.
The name quoted to take over Petrobras in place of Joaquim Silva e Luna was not exciting either. This is because, in the past, Adriano Pires came to declare that the federal government was “hostage of truck drivers”.
“Actually, they’re just trying to manipulate until the elections. It’s more of the same”, says Gilson Baitaca, representative of truck drivers in Mato Grosso.
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