The Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, said this Monday (14), that President Lula (PT) asked for “strong measures” to be adopted in relation to .
According to the minister, the president asked the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, and the Minister of the Accounting General of the Union (CGU), Vinicius de Carvalho, to investigate possible omissions on the part of employees of the National Electric Energy Agency ( Aneel).
And for the National Consumer Secretariat (Senacon), of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, to gather information on situations of omission by local governments.
The measures will be announced at a press conference, scheduled at 2 pm.
“President Lula, since Saturday, has had an energetic stance, he even sent me to the city of Diadema, the mayor requested the federal government, I spent both Friday night and Saturday morning in the city of Diadema, it was a absurd, for example, from the concessionaire, saying that they had placed 12 teams for the entire ABC region”, said Padilha.
Blackout
Residents of greater São Paulo still feel the effects of last Friday’s storm (11).
Around 2.1 million Enel customers were left without power, according to the concessionaire itself. The updated numbers show that, as of Monday morning (14), more than 537,000 people were still in the dark.
The crisis placed – on opposite sides – the federal government and the city of São Paulo.
The Minister of Mines and Energy, , stated that the mayor spreads fake news, that Aneel is a Bolsonarista and that there is still time for City Hall to prune the trees, before the rainy season arrives for good.
