Raising the minimum wage will become one of the President-elect’s priorities after his January 1 inauguration
Brazil’s president-elect Lula da Silva plans to return to political activity tomorrow after taking a few days off in Bahia. He has a tight agenda ahead of him, which calls for urgent work to process a budget that will enable him, immediately after taking office on January 1, to deliver on the promises made during the election campaign and which gave him the victory in the polls. In this sense, Gleisi Hoffmann, chairman of the Workers’ Party (PT), of which Lula is the leader, stated last Thursday that the new government cannot start in 2023 “without emergency aid and without a real increase in the minimum wage. That was agreed in the polls. Along the same lines, Geraldo Alckmin, the elected vice president who has tasked Lula with coordinating the entire transition process, has spoken out.
The concern now lies with realizing the increase in a budget approved by outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro’s government last August. The formula preferred by Lula’s main allies is to submit a proposal for a constitutional amendment (PEC), which is considered the safest and most legal from a legal point of view. However, there are serious doubts that this route would be the most suitable for the Lula administration, which could jeopardize its political capital, as the PEC needs the approval of 308 out of 513 deputies and 49 out of 81 senators. For now, Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco has stated that Congress would be willing to vote on the proposed amendment. Plan B involves him going to the Court of Auditors and getting extraordinary credits through a provisional measure that would have to be signed by Lula himself after taking office.
Lula is aware that he has the trust and credibility of the international world, so he doesn’t have to worry about that support. It’s time to please and gain the trust of those within, yours. Of the more than 60 million Brazilians who, at the age of 77, gave him the chance to lead the country for the third time in his history, and also of the more than 58 million who voted for Bolsonaro. With a country so polarized and with many of the radicals who have demanded the intervention of the military in demonstrations, Lula needs to present results as soon as possible. He is required to enter into dialogues and reach out to sectors that are against him.
In his victory speech at the polls on Sunday, Lula made a promise: “From January 1, I will rule for the 215 million Brazilians. Not just for those who voted for me. There are no two Brazilians. We are a country, a single people, a great nation. Although Bolsonaro’s last speeches spoke of a Brazil emerging in the economic aspect, the truth is that the country suffers from significant inequalities and is not the same as Lula discovered when he ruled between 2003 and 2010. Today, there are more inequalities and greater poverty, caused in part by the Covid-19 virus pandemic. According to federal deputy Rui Falcao, who coordinated Lula’s campaign, “Bolsonaro has left the country in a state of public disaster,” as he told the press a few days ago. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for the new government to fulfill the pledge to raise the minimum wage, which has remained unchanged for the past four years, and to maintain the 600 reais ‘Bolsa Familiar’ aid to the most needy families. , to dispense medicines to pharmacies and plan a vaccination project for next year.
In an interview with the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’, the re-elected governor of Espirito Santo, Renato Casagrande, believes that, in addition to easing the political environment, Lula also has an obligation to deliver economic results in order to build confidence. “Today, Brazil wants to take a more central political-administrative position. Lula has a progressive profile, but in fiscal and economic terms he has to take into account the reality expressed by the Brazilian people in the polls. It must guarantee in the social, human rights and environmental fields the achievements that have been achieved in recent decades and that the Bolsonaro government posed a threat to these achievements.” Casagrande, of the socialist party, believes 2023 will be a very difficult year because ” the deficit will be very high.” And he states that “to reduce the dynamics of the violence on the streets, the government must comply.” The governor warns that it would be good if people recognize that Bolsonaro came out of this election stronger by getting 58 million votes and having a majority in Congress, adding that “there are those who voted for Bolsonaro and expect a clear signal of balance and confidence from Lula.”
Jair Bolsonaro, who took 48 hours to get to the country but has not yet admitted his defeat or congratulated Lula on his election victory, is keeping his distance after he sent a video last Thursday in which he told the truck drivers. asked to stop the demonstrations. protests that had blocked many highways in the country.
At this point, no voices have emerged demanding that Lula fulfill the promises he made in the latest televised debate in which he said he would win the election and disclose to the Brazilian people all the documents the former president had placed under state control. . secret for 100 years, including the details of vaccination amid the covid-19 pandemic, during which Bolsonaro questioned the effectiveness and safety of immunizers. Prioritizing this promise could pose more problems than benefits for the Lula government.
The new president continues his fight against “fake news” on his social network accounts, where he invites citizens to keep fighting for the truth: “Don’t feed chaos, don’t share lies and keep exposing,” he writes.
Source: La Verdad
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