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The proposal, presented by board member Francisco Petros, comes just hours after Petrobras announced it was raising fuel prices, sparking outrage among Brazil’s top politicians.
One of the conditions of the temporary price freeze would be for the government to withdraw its nomination of a senior economic official as the company’s new chief executive, as well reversing its newly appointed board members.
The proposal was sent to the chief executive of the state-owned company and to two ministers, as reported earlier by local newspaper Valor Economico.
Aside from a price freeze, the board of directors also discussed creating a working group to look at revamping the company’s pricing policy.
