Guedes cites ‘noise’ in Bolsonaro’s criticism of the economic team and says that the president’s ‘red card’ was not for him | economy

Earlier on Tuesday (15), Bolsonaro said that “it is prohibited” to speak of Renda Brasil within the government. The program was even discussed as a replacement for Bolsa Família. However, the economic team’s proposals on spending cuts to finance Renda Brasil did not please the president. Bolsonaro said that Bolsa Família will continue.

The president also criticized attempts to seek income for Renda Brasil from the pension and pension freezes. In an interview with G1 on Sunday (13), the special finance secretary, Waldery Rodrigues, said that these measures were evaluated by the economic team. Another alternative was to reduce the amount of unemployment insurance.

Bolsonaro called the measures “dreamy” and said he would give a “red card” to anyone who presented him with these proposals.

Guedes spoke about the situation in a video conference on reforms and the future of the Brazilian economy after the pandemic.

“Today there was all this noise. We are making connections from points that are not connected. They are studies that we do, we are advising. Various simulations and studies are carried out. The selective treatment of information distorts everything, ”said Guedes.

The minister also said that he spoke with the president this morning.

“As all the newspapers gave this today, that the president is going to take money from the elderly, fragile and vulnerable to pass it on to the poor, the president repeated what he had said before. And he raised a red card, which was not for me. I spoke to the president. ” Early today. I was very sorry for that interpretation, ”the minister continued.

In his speech, Guedes recalled that Renda Brasil would take advantage of the experience of emergency aid to continue making payments to socially vulnerable people above the value of Bolsa Família. The aid, created to help workers during the pandemic, will be paid until the end of the year.

The minister said the government is studying ways to make a “landing” after the end of emergency aid. The term refers to the need for the most vulnerable sectors to continue receiving some government assistance.

He defended de-indexing measures, with which the government could prevent benefits currently being paid from being corrected, for example, by the minimum wage. For Guedes, deindexation should be generalized and it is an “illusion” to say that it would only achieve benefits for the poorest.

If we de-index all public spending, there is a part that takes the most vulnerable, the elderly, BPC. So speak, the government is taking the government of the elderly and more fragile to make Brazil’s income. This is an illusion. That is not what is in the federative pact, it was a de-indexing of all spending, not of the poorest, “said the minister.

‘Politically, you can always decide, the indexing of the most fragile continues, and that’s what the president said. As they keep saying that I still want to take money from the poor, for Brazilian income, I will make it clear: I will not do that. And then he discredited the idea of ​​income in Brazil. It won’t have that. Finished. They are distorting everything. They are accusing the president of demagogy, of taking money from the poor to give it to the poorest, “added Guedes.

The minister confirmed the end of plans to form Renda Brasil, recalling President Bolsonaro’s guidance not to withdraw money from the poor to give it to the poor. “As they keep saying that I still want to take money from the poor, for Renda Brasil, I will make it clear: ‘I’m not going to do that,'” he said, quoting Bolsonaro.