Nothing will change at Petrobras, says Mourão

Vice President Hamilton Mourão (Republicans) said this Wednesday (30) that “nothing will change” at Petrobras with the resignation of the state’s president, Joaquim Silva e Luna, and his replacement by economist Adriano Pires.

“This new Petrobras president who will be appointed, Adriano Pires, if you read everything he writes, everything will continue as before in the Abrantes barracks. Planalto Palace, in Brasilia.

“Petrobras is a publicly traded company, it has a board of directors, it has full governance. It cannot go back to the facts that occurred during the PT governments, where a mixture of incompetence, mismanagement and corruption left the company practically on canvas. The company is recovered, so this matter has to be discussed well.”

On Tuesday night (29), the sheet showed that executives in the fuel market and people close to Pires say that he should follow the company’s pricing policy, even advocating periodic and small-interval readjustments.

The transfers of the escalation of oil to the consumer were precisely the cause of friction between General Silva and Luna with the Planalto Palace.

Therefore, institutional investors and large funds heard by Folha assess that friction with the government tends to be repeated with Pires in charge.

However, they believe that Pires’ proximity to Congress will pave the way for a plan B – the creation of some compensation mechanism whenever oil is too high.

The increase in fuel costs is one of the government’s biggest concerns, as the increasingly higher readjustments are interpreted as a risk to the president’s reelection, and has generated pressure within the government itself for a solution to soften the price for the final consumer. .

A Datafolha survey released this week shows that, for most Brazilians (68%), the Bolsonaro government is responsible for the rise in fuel prices.

Also on Thursday, Mourão praised Silva and Luna and played down the general’s discontent with the way his resignation was announced.

“Silva e Luna is one of the most complete and prepared officers of our generation, I say the people trained at the Military Academy in the first half of the 70s. He was once Minister of Defense, he was president of Itaipu; now he was at Petrobras, he did a excellent job at Petrobras, so he is calm, he is a very calm guy”, said the deputy.

On Tuesday, Silva e Luna declared that Petrobras cannot engage in “partisan politics” and that there is no place for the adventurous in it.

In a lecture at the STM (Superior Military Court), he also said that “it is difficult for many people’s minds” to understand the role of the state-owned company and that he has already explained the price policy to “high-level authorities”, but that they enter into the “emotional side” and question why he can’t do public policy at Petrobras.