The President (PT) collects in his third term episodes in which he made publicly pressure as a way to interfere with mixed and even private public agencies and companies.
Lula has already openly criticized the Central Bank, Petrobras and Vale, and in some cases it softened its lines after changes that favored it, such as the exchange in the board of these entities.
In the most recent case, he defended the oil exploration in the Foz do Amazonas and Ibama basin, responsible for the authorization of the measure.
“If we will explore later, it is another discussion. What is not possible to be in this lenga-lenga. Ibama is a government organ, looking like it is an organ against the government,” said Lula.
Direct speech against the agency is the apex of a series of statements in defense of exploitation. The request of is for drilling a new well on the equatorial margin – step when it seeks to study the technical and economic viability of exploration.
The government’s energy area and Petrobras argue that the mouth of the Amazon is essential to replace the. Minister Marina Silvaase is sustainable, or not, the venture.
among the agency technicians. The evaluation of servers is that the process has become extremely political interference, rather than following a formal rite.
At other times, the president has criticized AEA Petrobras, both before the change in the companies. In addition, in his first two years of government, he had, then president, in his sights.
The agent adopts a less critical tone after a change in business management and the BC that pleases him.
In the case of Vale, in August 2024, he criticized the large amount of shareholders. “It’s just like a dog of much owner: hungry or thirsty, because everyone thinks it has put water, everyone thinks it gave food and no one put it,” he said.
Vale is today a defined controller, a corporation, but still influenced by its former controllers, Previ, the Banco do Brasil employees pension fund, Bradesco and the Japanese Mitsui.
Lula had been criticizing the company since the beginning of his management and even tried to interfere with the company’s succession process, pressuring the nomination of former Minister Guido Mantega. When elected to the presidency of Vale last year, Gustavo Pimenta among his priorities.
Last Friday (14), the company’s president was praised by Lula. He said that pepper management is “extraordinary opportunity” to reconnect the interests of the mining company with the interests of the Brazilian state.
“Something happened [entre a Vale o o governo]. There was a unleashed wire that created an unpleasant climate, “said the president.” With my return to the government and with his entry into Vale, I’m sure we will cover this wire, “he said during an event at Mine of Carajás, in Parauapebas (PA), where it is worth.
In late January he had already said that before Vale did not discuss with the government priority projects and that “now he has a new behavior.”
Similar phenomenon occurred with Petrobras. In the case of the company, before Magda Chambriard took office, Lula criticized the distribution of dividends and said that the company needed to “think of the Brazilian people”.
“What I think is that Petrobras, which is a company where the government has ancestry about it, is important to take into account the following: Petrobras is not just a company to think of shareholders who invest in it, because Petrobras has to Think of investment and think of 200 million Brazilians who own this company or partners of this company, “said Lula in March 2024.
He also reported having had a serious conversation with the company’s management at the time. This was the first of the crises that led to the fall of Jean Paulo Prates, who had been nominated by Lula at the beginning of the government.
In January this year, already with the company under the command of Magda Chambriard, the president distanced himself from the company’s decisions, amid the increased price of diesel.
“I read a lot today what you wrote yesterday, you know, but I haven’t been warned yet if it will increase or not, and she doesn’t have to warn me. If she has a decision that for Petrobras it is important to do the readjustment, she does And communicate to the press, “he told reporters.
Sought, the presidency responded on the cases cited in the report.
“About Ibama, the president has pointed out that the country cannot do without conducting research to discover the potential for oil exploration in the equatorial margin region, but has reiterated that the process will be conducted from the position of Ibama, with responsibility and Fulfilling with rigor all environmental requirements, “says the note.
The Planalto also speaks in the “institutional strengthening” of the agency, which has had competitions and salary adjustments in the last two years.
In the case of Vale, he pointed out that the company is private and the selection process of the president obeys the company’s policy and there is no “direction by the federal government”.
Regarding Petrobras, Planalto says that Lula “has always stressed the strategic role of the company as an instrument to boost Brazil’s economic and social development”. And reiterated the president’s previous speech that the government has no interference with the price of diesel.
