Leo in the Folha de Sao Paulo a story that leaves me ice cream, three opposition deputies had separate amendments to the draft submitted by the Executive Branch and that are related to how to exploit the wealth oil found in the geological layer of pre-salt, with identical wording and addressing the interests of large private sector companies.
The "cloning" of the ideas expressed there is what is most striking about the proposals made by parliamentarians José Carlos Aleluia (DEM, the political heir of the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985), Eduardo Sciarra also the DEM or the Democratic Party, and Eduardo Gomes, of the PSDB (Social Democratic Party), which has among its ranks José Serra, the current governor of St. Paul and the candidate with greater intention to vote, of 28 to 39.5 % of preferences, according to various polls, the presidential elections of October 2010.
The Brazilian Institute of Oil, Gas and Biofuels (IBP), which includes the main oil companies in the area, confirmed, meanwhile, who had contacts with the leadership of at least eight games in Brasilia to get them interested in their opinions. But he denied authorship of the amendments "cloned", although it was recognized that the wording of these coincide with their findings.
The IBP is chaired by Joao Carlos Franca de Lula, of the English company Repsol, one of the leading multinationals in the sector. Who acknowledged that there were parties willing to fully comply with their views, while others "were analyzing."
The key amendment that the three deputies signed, ignoring the details of presenting the same paragraph as if born of their creativity, says quote: "The legal provision of a monopoly or market reserve for Petrobras (the company whose main shareholder is the state) is not justified in any hypothesis. "
"A counselor lazy" Eduardo Gomes
admitted that the amendment was given to him by representatives of the sector. "I have contact with all associations, all the IBP, Sindicom (distributors of fuels and lubricants). I have no shame in relation to such assistance, "he said, arguing also that the identical texts may have been the result of a" consultant lazy. "
other hand, and putting the patch before the injury, he stressed that no campaign donations from these companies. Although it took them, he said, the electricity sector, on which it has legislated in areas that relate to its regulation.
The trouble is that their colleagues can not say the same. Folha investigated this and found that the group of companies directly affected by the four bills that define the rules for pre-salt exploration, donated a total of 28.5 million reais (14 million) to candidates to Congress in the 2006 elections. And that 30 percent of the current senators, including several of the PT, Lula's ruling party, a fierce defender of Petrobras-received funding in the sector.
The question that arises then is as follows: Legislature by the people through their representatives or companies legislate through Parliament that somehow, remain captives and hostages of their influence, as they reached their positions with financial support which might suggest the requirement of charges once elected?
In modern liberal states have recognized the need to legally regulate the lobby-that is, the activity of lobbying by some companies of "communications" for specific private interests. And this is not advance a reprehensible or unethical activity, if carried out in a transparent and public. Lobby
without intermediaries
But what happens when the work of provision of good offices is not completed even by third parties but by the same power groups who see their interests threatened? What is beyond any kind of scrutiny, that is not, as in this case, a careful and vigilant press? Is that legitimate? Is it valid to allow a practice that can lead ultimately to the policy oligarchization?
only missing to complete the picture, a couple of additional data:
● Besides the end of Petrobras' monopoly in the operation of new fossil fuel fields under the seabed (140 thousand square kilometers) , private advocate, among other things, reduced Petrosal power (the state gerenciaría the new model) in the exploratory committees and to the requirement that Petrobras has a minimum of 30% stake in all new wells.
● Of the 742 amendments submitted to government projects on the subject, 318 relate to the proposal to change the current system of grants from the fields, established in 1997, during the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's social democratic, by the cast (" partilha " in Portuguese), in oil exploration; system, incidentally, guarantees a good piece of cake to Petrobras. ●
Analysts estimate that the opposition, led by the "Tucano" PSDB, led in turn by Serra, seeks to avoid an ideological clash with President Lula, who would give tray a nationalist discourse on the eve of an election year. Besides, Serra himself, that is, to those who know him, a "tax expert" is not too far from Lula's oil program, which has argued that the discovery of the riches of the pre-salt opens the doors of a "second independence" in Brasil, allowing you to pay its huge public debt.
● Last but not least: As multinationals have organized to lobby in favor of his pocket, the Association of Petrobras Engineers (Aepet), in alliance with the workers of the oil giant, which took a long time in the big leagues in the sector also is bidding on his own words in the coming discussion in Parliament. In fact, submitted a proposal that plainly seeks to take up the state oil monopoly. As in the second government of Getúlio Vargas (1951-1954), when it coined a phrase that even now strikes hard in the collective unconscious of the Brazilians, " O é Nosso oil."
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