Flávio Bolsonaro criticizes coffee high and says drink became “ostentation”

The senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) Used social networks to criticize the increase in coffee price and hold the president’s government responsible Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) For the high inflation of food. In an X (former Twitter) publication, the parliamentarian said that consuming the drink in bakeries has become a “luxury” in the current government.

“Coffee, which is a morning and post-siege table heritage, is threatened. It became a luxury item in the Lulopetist government. A drip in the bakery is ostentation. What a madness that is a country ruled by the far left… ”wrote the senator.

The criticism occurs after the release of the Broad National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), by IBGE, which pointed to a 50.4% annualized inflation at Café ground in January. This was the largest accumulated increase in 12 months since July 2022, when the discharge reached 58.12%.

Coffee prices climbing has been one of the main themes explored by Lula government opponents. The governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (New), also criticized the increase and even shared a video in which she reuse coffee powder as a protest.

In the reopening of the legislature, opposition congressmen used the discharge of coffee as a symbol of dissatisfaction with the government’s economic policy. Parliamentarians took coffee bags to the plenary and chanted shouts like “neither picanha nor coffee”, alluding to promises made by Lula during the election campaign.

The high price of coffee is due to a combination of factors, including crop breaking in some producing regions and oscillations in the international market. Despite criticism, the federal government has not yet announced specific measures to contain product inflation.