In an interview with Globo News on August 3, the presidential candidate says that this measure will stimulate the free market

The privatization of Petrobras or not is a very recurrent theme, mainly in the last few months, due to the scalable increases in fuel prices. Presidential candidate Jair Messias Bolsonaro has a very clear and favorable position towards the privatization of the Brazilian state-owned oil company and ended up confirming this in an interview with Globo News yesterday (03), when asked about it. Watch the video excerpt from the interview and understand his opinion more properly:

According to the understanding of Bolsonaro and other specialists in favor of privatization, the use of Petrobras to reduce the price of gasoline is inefficient because even subsidizing the price of gasoline, the government cannot make the price of gasoline be as low as in other countries. producing countries such as the USA, India, China and Russia. Another fact that is taken into account is the issue of profitability, which is around 9,17%, that is, it has to produce a lot to make little profit.