Federal deputy and former Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles (PL-SP)| Photo: Pablo Valadares/Chamber of Deputies

Federal deputy Ricardo Salles (PL-SP) announced that he will present next Monday (10) a draft legislative decree with the aim of annulling the decree signed on Wednesday (5) by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) that changes the legal framework for basic sanitation. Among the changes promoted by the act of the Chief Executive is the permission for state-owned companies to maintain contracts without bidding with municipalities.

In an interview with Jovem Pan radio, federal deputy Ricardo Salles (PL-SP), called the measure “shameful” because it would serve only political interests. “We are going to enter, on Monday, with a draft legislative decree to overturn this decree by President Lula, which is a shameful measure: it goes against the environment, it goes against people’s health, it goes against the logic of administrative efficiency. ”, said the former Minister of the Environment in the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

“It is clearly you to honor corporatism, the lobby, to the detriment of the interest of society”, he said. “There is, on top of that, a huge risk of capture by the [Nacional de Águas] parochial political interests, in the worst sense of the word”.

“The only explanation for this, as already mentioned here, is the political collusion of state-owned companies that do not want competition, that are not efficient, and that want to transfer the cost of their corruption and inefficiency to Brazilian society”, he added.