Lula: I have just signed a decree that will end the oligopoly with the worker's meal voucher

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva referred to the meal voucher and food operators market as an "oligopoly" and said that the decree regulating the Worker Food Program (PAT), signed by him this Tuesday, 11, will end this concentration. "I have just signed the decree that will end the oligopoly of a few companies with the worker meal voucher," said the president during the signing of the decree, as shown in a video posted on social media. The event was closed at the Palácio da Alvorada, from where the president works this Tuesday. It was attended by a few people: the Ministers of Labor, Luiz Marinho, of Finance, Fernando Haddad, and of the Civil House, Rui Costa, in addition to Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and the president of the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (Abras), João Galassi. The press could not attend the meeting. The president released two short excerpts from the meeting on his Instagram account. Another excerpt published was from a speech by the Minister of ...