On the night of 09/01/2020 (Thursday), in a live broadcast on Facebook, President Jair Bolsonaro responded to an opinion piece from the newspaper “O Globo”, which said that “it is inconceivable that the President of the Republic intervenes in an organization outside of his institutional reach, the sector’s regulatory agency, the ANEEL, so that it goes back on the idea of reducing incentives [for solar energy]. It only discourages private investment in infrastructure, which it claims to defend, by pressuring an independent body, creating legal uncertainty.”
Bolsonaro's response was that he has “every right in the world to work for ANEEL not tax solar energy” and also stated that “the ANEEL has autonomy, but is not sovereign”. Therefore, in Bolsonaro’s words, the agency would not have more power than the Presidency of the Republic and the National Congress.
Bolsonaro has been a defender of the cause of photovoltaic solar energy in the country. On several occasions, the president expressed his opposition to the “taxation” of solar energy that has been imposed by the regulatory agency.
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