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Presidente Lula assina decreto que moderniza o Programa de Alimentação do Trabalhador
106 statements · 1 politicians · November 11, 2025 · 11 min
Statements by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. 106 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified.
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Look, I have just signed the decree that will end the oligopoly of a few companies over workers' meal vouchers.
I'll hand the floor to Minister Marinho to explain what this is.
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Well, Mr. President, Mr. President, the ministers, our Vice President.
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Well, this is a measure, Mr. President, that has a reach that may be greater than what we are seeing.
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Because the four... large companies that have the real oligopoly are against this here, but on the other side the smaller companies are fully supporting what we are doing, because it will increase competition.
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By ending the oligopoly, these companies will be able to participate actively, providing transparency and increasing competition.
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To benefit whom, Mr. President?
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To benefit the small restaurant, the botequim, the bakery.
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The small market, the neighborhood mini-market, the supermarkets that will be able to reduce payment fees.
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Today the companies, Mr. President, charge up to 10%.
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10% on the main fee.
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But there are the ancillary fees, as they call them.
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On renewal, on the annual fee, everything.
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So it reaches more than 10%.
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What we are doing here is that in 90 days, all of them... the fee they will pay is at most 3.6%.
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So this is a great benefit for all commerce that works with meal vouchers and food vouchers.
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And there is another very important detail, Mr. President.
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Today, the worker goes to a restaurant and eats.
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He goes there and the voucher has already been paid.
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In other words, that restaurant... It sends to be collected by those four companies that are the big oligopoly.
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They take up to 30 days to pass on the money they received.
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Because the employer, when they contract the food voucher, they pay in advance.
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Therefore, they receive in advance and it takes 30 days to pass it on to the restaurant.
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So this is a serious problem, a major complaint from all the small restaurants.
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who end up being sacrificed by those four companies.
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This is the reason they don't want to open that so-called closed arrangement.
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Because with the closed arrangement, they end up enslaving the small merchant to comply with the rules they impose.
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With this decree, you will be able to make this open up, competition, bring transparency.
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and competition will lead to a process that can even be lower than 3.6%.
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3.6% is the maximum fee, everything must fit within this.
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Mr. President, surely you are doing a great thing.
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But we are here, besides our minister, Minister Rui Costa, Dario Nascatari from the Treasury, Minister Haddad, our vice president Alckmin, our colleagues who are here accompanying us, and here is João Galassi, who is president of Abra de Supermercados.
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I would like to have other people here, but João may be able to give a testimony from the point of view of the restaurant, of the small market, about what will happen with this decree that Your Excellency is signing at this moment.
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Thank you very much, Mr. President.
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João, over to you.
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Well, Mr. President, to all the ministers present here, all the colleagues, first I would like to thank you very much, Mr. President, because today you reduced intermediation.
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and increased the feeding of the Brazilian people, of the worker.
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From today, as soon as fees are reduced for small markets, for medium markets, and the reimbursement period is shortened, we will be able to compete better, we will be able to pass on better prices to consumers, and thus, Mr. President, meet the demand you have always worked on, which is exactly... meeting the food demand of the Brazilian people.
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And you have done an incredible job in this area, and today you introduced a historic change, because all Brazilian market retailers will stand up and applaud today, small restaurants will stand up and applaud, this change that you made.
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You don't yet grasp... how important this is for the supermarket sector, for the Brazilian consumer, because today we have to pass on these absurd, violent fees, this easy-profit, this habit of easy profit by those four companies; we have to pass it on in the price of food in order to reimburse them, this shameful financial cycle.
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