Concerned with survival, Temer "forgot" about truck drivers.
The government leadership acknowledges that Temer failed to grasp the seriousness of the truckers' movement because he was obsessed with his political survival in the face of the Lava Jato investigations and his increasing weakening in the National Congress; the government ignored four warnings from the truckers since last October.
247 - Ministers close to President Michel Temer acknowledge that the government's delay in reacting to the seriousness of the truckers' and transport sector's dissatisfaction has a specific reason: the government was entirely focused on its political survival in the face of the Lava Jato investigations and its growing weakening in the National Congress. This information comes from journalist [name missing]. Gerson CamarottiYesterday (25), the 247 It was revealed that Temer and his Chief of Staff, Eliseu Padilha, were warned about the possibility of a truckers' strike on at least four occasions since October 2017, but ignored the issue, obsessed with weakening the government and the possibility of being arrested soon after the coup plotters' term ended. They led the country to chaos by supporting Parente's policies at the head of Petrobras.
Camarotti wrote:
The internal assessment is that the progress of the Lava Jato investigations against Temer and the difficulty in managing the allied base in Congress have drained the Planalto Palace of the energy needed to address other issues.
Therefore, sources close to the president admit that the sector's complaints were downplayed. Even after the strike began, the Presidential Palace initially underestimated the movement.
On Tuesday (22), when the category's strike was already intense throughout Brazil, the government was focused on the electoral agenda with the pre-launch of former minister Henrique Meirelles' candidacy for the Planalto Palace.