Five of the country’s largest transportation concessionaires warn of reflections on changes made by the House
BRASÍLIA – The changes promoted by the Chamber of Deputies in the Law on State Companies have been badly received by the five largest transport concessionaires in the country.
On the night of Tuesday 13, in a lightning vote, the Chamber of Deputies has approved an amendment to the law that establishes the criteria for the assumption of management positions in state-owned companies🇧🇷 The same rule went into effect for appointments to the top of regulatory agencies.
MoveInfra, an entrepreneurial movement that brings together the companies Rumo, EcoRodovias, Ultracargo, Santos Brasil and CCR Rodovias, said it was “concerned about the legislative process that could lead to a setback”.
The main change to the text reduces the period in which party leaders and lawmakers have to stay out of office to assume leadership in state-owned companies or regulatory agencies from three years to 30 days. It’s called quarantine.
Although the proposal was not made by the PT or reported by the party, it was supported by almost the entire party. Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), son “03? of President Jair Bolsonaro and political rival of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), and members Carla Zambelli (PL-SP), Flávia Arruda (PL-DF), Hanno Tereza Cristina (PP-MS), the latter two former Bolsonaro ministers, also voted in favour🇧🇷 The proposal had a large majority, with 314 votes in favor and 66 against, and is now being examined by senators.
Behind the scenes we read that the change serves to make possible the candidacies of Aloizio Mercadante, coordinator of Lula’s government program, for the presidency of the BNDES, already confirmed by the elected president; and Senator Jean Paul Prates (PT-RN), cited for commanding Petrobras.
The PT said Mercadante did not work in a party-related position and that he does not benefit from any change. In the case of Prates, the senator did not play a central role in Lula’s electoral campaign, and Petrobras’ lawyers and executives have already relativised any impediments to his appointment.
Entrepreneurs linked to MoveInfra state that the prescriptions of the laws “objectively aim at increasing technical qualification” and that this has led to progress in public management “which has allowed indications based on technical criteria, aligned with transparency and meritocracy, principles sanctioned by good international practices and positively valued by long-term investors”.
The companies have strengthened their commitment to invest 78 billion reais over the next five years, in projects that have already been tendered, but which, for this, “strengthen legal certainty and regulatory predictability is essential”.
“Any hasty law changes that are widely evaluated, without mature and transparent debate, adversely affect the business environment,” the movement said.
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