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Without warning, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro killed, even before he was born, Renda Brasil, a social assistance project that his Administration wanted to implement instead of Bolsa Família. The retirement makes the place of the “super-administration” of Finance, Paulo Guedes, even more unsustainable.
The announcement was made this Tuesday, through a video posted on Bolsonaro’s social networks, in which the president harshly attacks the Ministry of Economy team itself. At stake was the mechanism found by Guedes’ team to finance the new social program, which included freezing the readjustment of some pensions and reducing a benefit that benefits the elderly and people with disabilities.
“Anyone who comes to propose a measure like this, I can only give him a red card. They are people who do not have the least heart, the least understanding of how retirees live, “said Bolsonaro. “Until 2022, in my government, it is forbidden to pronounce the word Renda Brasil: we will continue with Bolsa Família. Period ”, he added.
For some time, Bolsonaro hoped to build an ambitious program to help the poorest families along the same lines as Bolsa Família – created during the management of the Workers’ Party (PT) – but with the brand of your Government. Bolsonaro’s plans went through a considerable increase in the average benefit of the program’s beneficiaries. Currently, the average of the benefits of Bolsa Família is 190 reais (30 euros), but Renda Família’s ambition was to reach 300 (48 euros).
Bolsonaro, who was critical of programs like Bolsa Família, saw his popularity grow among the lower classes after the government distributed aid of 600 reais (96 euros) to millions of poor families during the most critical months of the pandemic. of covid-19. Meanwhile, the value has risen by half, but will remain until the end of the year.
Maintaining support for the poorest – especially in the Northeast, where the PT remains strong – assumed for Bolsonaro a crucial character so that his popularity does not fall to a level of danger, especially when there are several requests to challenge the mandate in the Congress and the Investigations into alleged corruption over his son, Flávio Bolsonaro, are drawing ever closer to him.
However, from the Ministry of Economy warnings came that for Renda Brasil to know the light of day it would be necessary to have sacrifices in other benefits, otherwise, the “spending ceiling”, which prevents public spending for a year from exceeding to the previous one. – would be raped.
In his statement, Bolsonaro rebelled against the proposals that came to him from Guedes’ office, stating that he refused to “take money from the poor to give to the poor.”
Bolsonaro’s statements are being read as yet another sign that Guedes may have his days numbered ahead of the powerful ministry. However, the economist’s support is still important for the president to hold a good opinion with investors and the upper classes, according to some analysts.
Speculation that the ultra-liberal economist’s consulate is coming to an end has grown in recent weeks. The response to the pandemic caused a stampede among the secretaries of the Ministry of Economy, which at the beginning of the mandate presented itself with the mission of privatizing public companies, cutting expenses and reducing the weight of the State like no other in the history of Brazil.
In reaction to Bolsonaro’s words, Guedes insisted on ensuring that “the red card” was not addressed to him and praised the president’s decision, who said it was “correct.”
The next victim among Guedes’ allies is expected to be the special secretary of the Ministry of the Economy, Waldery Rodrigues, who has defended the freezing of the minimum wage to finance social programs, according to the Brazilian press.
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