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Gleisi says the government should attack Petrobras' "indecent dividends."

In fact, the company's dividend policy is one of the main causes of the Brazilian crisis.

Cooking gas, Petrobras, fuel and the national president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann (Photo: ABr)

247 - The president of the Workers' Party, Gleisi Hoffmann, argued that the government should attack Petrobras' "indecent dividends," following the decision announced by Minister Fernando Haddad. reinstate taxes on gasoline and ethanol..

On Twitter, Gleisi said that it is necessary to build a "fair pricing policy" at Petrobras, end the international price parity (PPI) policy for the sale of fuels by the company, and "review the indecent distribution of dividends by the company so that it can reinvest and make Brazil grow."

An international survey confirms that Petrobras has indeed been one of the world's biggest dividend payerswith a policy that siphons income from Brazilians and transfers the resources to its private shareholders.