The assessment at Palácio do Planalto is that the president will not discuss the now revoked decree again, which included stretches of Amazon rivers in the federal government’s waterway concessions program.
following strong protests in the Tapajós region, in Pará. Demonstrations were expected in several cities across the country, including in front of the Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília.
the minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, negotiated the revocation directly with President Lula, who was in Asia, and provoked the anger of colleagues on the Esplanada.
After the clash generated within the government, the president’s interlocutors assess that the issue is “dead and buried” and will not be discussed again this year.
The assessment is that tension was growing and there could be a rupture between the government and an important social base in an election year, which an ally classified as unacceptable.
The decree provided for the carrying out of technical, environmental and logistical studies to include waterways on the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins rivers in the National Privatization Program.
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