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Hamilton Mourão, vice president of the Republic, said the government would grant emergency aid if it had the money to do so. The vice president supported Paulo Guedes, the Minister of Economy, who denied that the program is extended after December 2020.
“That story, right? Again, do we have money to pay? If we had money to pay, we would extend it, we would improve it, we would do anything. But, if you don’t have money to pay… and Minister Guedes is the owner of the safe and the guy who knows the situation we are in, ”said Mourão.
Rodrigo Maia, president of the Chamber of Deputies, also spoke on the subject. On his Twitter account, he shared a story about Guedes denying the extension beyond December and agreed. “The position of the mayor’s office is the same,” he wrote.
Maia supports Guedes after a “dinner of peace”, which took place last Monday (5). The pacification of the two took place after the dinner organized by ministers trying to unite them. The approach aims to avoid obstacles in the agendas that the government is interested in passing in Parliament.
Initially, the emergency aid would pay three installments of R $ 600. It was expanded to two more installments of R $ 600. And more recently it has been renewed, now for more installments of R $ 300, which end in December. In this last extension, the beneficiaries will undergo a new analysis and must comply with the new requirements.
Guedes says aid until 2021 is possible
Last Thursday (12), the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, affirmed that the government will extend the emergency help, if a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic arrives in the country.
“The extension of emergency aid if there is a second wave is not a possibility, it is certain. If there is a second wave of the pandemic, Brazil will react as it did the first time. We are going to declare a state of public calamity and we are going to recreate emergency aid, ”he said.
The minister informed that this is not the expectation, but the economic team foresees it as a contingency. “Plan A for emergency aid ends on December 31 and returns to Bolsa Família. The pandemic is going down, emergency aid is going down. The renewal of emergency aid is not our working hypothesis, it is the contingency ”, he added.
Even so, during the virtual event promoted by the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (Abras), the minister reported that, if there is an extension, the idea is for Brazil to spend less than in the first wave of the pandemic. “Instead of spending 10% of GDP, we could spend 4%,” he added. “Brazil is going to break both waves, we are going the other way.”
The economy minister reiterated that the economic team’s plan was to combine emergency aid with Bolsa Família or Renta Ciudadana, which is still under study.
