The Brazilian Company of Participations in Nuclear and Binational Energy (ENBpar), the state-owned company that controls Itaipu, approved this Friday (3) the name of three PT members to occupy the board of the hydroelectric plant: federal deputy Enio Verri, to chair the company; the Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, and the Minister of Management, Esther Dweck. All are from PT.
Other party authorities must also be approved for the Itaipu council: the ministers of the Civil House, Rui Costa, of Finance, Fernando Haddad, who are also affiliated to the party.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, linked to the party, should be the fifth name.
The only one who should occupy the council who has no connections with the PT is the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, who is from the PSD.
For the appointment of these, however, a presidential decree is sufficient, which has not yet been issued.
The PT’s predominance reinforces the complaint of allies that the party has occupied the main positions on the Esplanada, especially in the energy sector.
In this area, there is an indisposition between the PT and the PSD that began with the PT’s veto of Silveira’s preferred name, Bruno Eustáquio, for the executive secretary of the MME.
Eustáquio is a career civil servant, but he served in the Bolsonaro government as executive secretary in Infrastructure and also in Mines and Energy, which motivated the PT veto.
In addition, there is discomfort in the PSD with the fact that the PT has dominated other relevant posts in the energy area, such as Petrobras, and also made it difficult for the party to indicate names for directors of Itaipu.
Source: CNN Brasil
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