05/22/2024 – 18:38
The Minister of Tourism, Celso Sabino, said that the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, was “giant” in building the agreement between the federal government and the National Congress around the bill that reformulates the Emergency Program for the Resumption of the Food Sector. Events (Perse). In Sabino’s assessment, Haddad tried “to the limit” to strike a balance between fiscal austerity and maintaining the benefit.
The statements took place this Wednesday, 22nd, at an event at Palácio do Planalto to sanction the bill that reformulates Perse, established during the covid-19 pandemic and which was maintained by Congress in the following years. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned the new law at the ceremony, but did not speak.
“Minister Fernando Haddad, President Lula, was a giant and, complying with Your Excellency’s guidelines, he tried his best to strike a balance between fiscal austerity and the benefit that Your Excellency sanctions today”, said the head of Tourism.
Sabino highlighted Haddad’s work in negotiating with parliamentarians, citing that the minister was “dozens of times” in the Chamber and the Senate to build the agreement. “We now have a much more modern and efficient law, which guarantees fiscal austerity, inspection of public resources and combating fraud,” he added.
Haddad initially wanted to end the program as part of his measures to balance public accounts. However, an agreement was reached with a ceiling of R$15 billion in tax waivers until December 2026, without correction for inflation.
The reformulation of Perse was exhausting for the government. The Executive included the end of the program in a provisional measure (MP) last year, but the Legislature did not accept it. Perse was excluded from the MP and began to be discussed in the form of a bill, which has no deadline for deliberation. The last analysis before being sent for presidential sanction was by the Senate, on April 30.
The praise for Haddad also comes after Lula demanded, in April, greater dialogue between the head of Finance and Congress. In a speech during a ceremony in Planalto, Lula mentioned that his party, the PT, has few congressmen in a universe of 513 deputies and 81 senators. “This means that vice-president Geraldo Alckmin has to be more agile, he has to talk more. Haddad has to, you know, instead of reading a book, he has to waste a few hours talking in the Senate and the Chamber”, said the head of the Executive at the time.
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