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Deputy Ricardo Barros (PP-PR), leader of the government in the Chamber, explained today how the new political articulation that motivated a scene that drew attention the day before yesterday, when the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, was interrupted while giving a conference of press. in Brasília. According to Barros, the intention is to avoid hasty announcements.
“We no longer want to continue saying things to the media with which the government itself will say it does not agree, so this new political articulation, which coincides first, announces later,” said the deputy in an interview with CNN Brazil.
While Guedes was speaking to the press the day before yesterday, Barros interrupted the minister’s speech several times by repeating “ok.” He remained on one side of Guedes, while on the other was General Luiz Eduardo Ramos, prime minister of the Government Secretariat.
Ramos even put his hand on Guedes’ shoulder to hasten the minister’s withdrawal. Barros, for his part, repeated “let’s go” the moment the three left the journalists.
“What we are trying to avoid now is to advance on issues that are not yet agreed upon and with that we generate a noise that disrupts the political articulation. Only that, Minister Guedes is the strongest minister in the government, ”insisted the government leader in the Chamber emphasizing.
Last week, President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) showed irritation with a statement from the special secretary of Finance of the Ministry of Economy, Waldery Rodrigues, who considered freezing pensions as a way to finance Renda Brasil’s benefits program. which should replace emergency aid.
Bolsonaro denied having considered the proposal and even “banned” public comments on Renda Brasil within the government.
New digital tax
Barros also spoke about one of the issues that was commented on by Guedes in the interview. The Minister of Economy spoke of “alternative taxes”, something that the government leader admits is a consensus in the political articulation around Bolsonaro.
“The other income that is proposed is this digital tax, this transaction tax, which will be 0.2% for the moment. Then the R $ 1,000 of the minimum wage will pay R $ 2 in tax, and not the R $ 200 and another R $ 25 ”, explained Barros about the tax, which has been called Digitax and should be levied on digital financial transactions.
“A broad-based tax, where everyone pays, the informal, the illegal and the formal are going to pay much less than what they pay today,” said the government leader, for whom the new tax is a certainty, since Bolsonaro wants . extend the exemption from payroll tax for some sectors, which would result in a loss of income of R $ 100 billion per year.
