Dilma meets with business leaders to discuss increased investments.
One day after meeting separately with the presidents of Vale, Odebrecht, and Cosan, President Dilma received leaders from Bradesco, the Lafarge group, and the Heavy Industry Union at the Planalto Palace; in addition to obtaining diagnoses of the real economy, she asked companies to increase their investments in Brazil.
247 – Economic growth is the main target of the federal government for 2013. Inaugurating her official agenda of contacts this year, President Dilma Rousseff made this concern clear by prioritizing private conversations in her office with leaders of the country's main private business groups. Yesterday morning, Dilma received separately the presidents of Vale, Odebrecht, and Cosan, respectively Murilo Ferreira, Marcelo Odebrecht, and Rubens Ometto. Today, she has already met with the president of Bradesco, Luiz Carlos Trabuco, the leader of the national union of Heavy Industry, Rodolpho Tourinho, and, in the afternoon, she will receive the president of the Lafarge group, Bruno Lafont.
Executives who spoke with the president on Thursday reported that Dilma has been presented with companies' investment plans and informed of the prospects for various productive sectors, in addition to listening to suggestions from the business community.
Currently on vacation, the Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, and the Development Minister, Fernando Pimentel, will not be attending the meetings, as is traditionally the case when discussing economic issues.