07/23/2024 – 22:15
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) stated this Tuesday, the 23rd, that the increase in the minimum wage makes the average Brazilian “more handsome and fatter”. The PT member’s statement was made during the ceremony celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Lagoa do Sino campus of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), located in the city of Buri (SP).
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“The economic wheel keeps turning, so that everyone can definitely participate. As people consume more, they will eat more. As they eat more, farmers will have to plant more. As they plant more, we will have cheaper food and we will be more handsome, fatter and healthier in this country,” said the President of the Republic.
Granting a real adjustment (i.e., above inflation) for the minimum wage was one of Lula’s main promises in the 2022 presidential campaign. Last year, the government defined the minimum wage adjustment rule, which provides for the combination of the increase in inflation measured by the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) of the previous year plus the variation in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from two years before.
In April, the federal government’s economic team presented the 2025 Budget Guidelines Bill (PLDO) and set a minimum wage forecast of R$1,502, up from the current R$1,412.
Lula compared previous governments with the destruction of the Gaza Strip
In the same speech given on the UFScar campus, Lula told the audience that they should enter politics when they think that “everyone is a thief”.
“As I think that Brazil needs a quality politician, a politician with a capital P, I wanted to tell you: when you no longer believe in anyone, when you think that everyone is a thief, that Camilo [Santana, ministro da Educação] is a thief, that Lula is a thief, that Raduan [Nassar, escritor] is a thief, that Paulo Teixeira [ministro do Desenvolvimento Agrário] is a thief, even when you are thinking all this, still do not be discouraged. Enter politics because the honest politician you want is within you”, said the President of the Republic.
Lula also compared the governments that succeeded the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff (PT) to the destruction caused by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
“I would say that what they did in this country after Dilma’s impeachment is what Netanyahu is doing in the Gaza Strip, in Palestine. What they did in this country was a bit like that.” The PT member avoided naming former presidents Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro, who succeeded the PT member as president.
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