The difficult negotiations and repeated defeats for the political wing since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic have caused a strain on the team of technicians at the Ministry of Economy that takes care of the budget area and fiscal policy.
After the resignation of the former secretaries who commanded the area (Bruno Funchal and Jeferson Bittencourt), now the departure movement takes place among the technicians. This process is very common in the last year of government before the elections, when there are many requests for transfers of posts, but now it has taken place earlier, still in the first month of the year.
The undersecretaries for Fiscal Affairs of the Federal Budget Secretariat (SOF), Luiz Guilherme Pinto Henriques, and for Budget Management, Márcio Luiz de Albuquerque Oliveira, will leave their posts, as revealed by the newspaper The globe. They will be replaced by Fabio Pontes and Clayton Montes. The future undersecretaries were already working as area directors at the Federal Budget Secretariat, an area headed by secretary Ariosto Antunes Culau.
According to the Estadãothere is no short-term dissatisfaction in this case for the delivery of leadership positions, as occurred in the departure of Funchal and Bittencourt during the negotiations of the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of the Precatórios, which ran over the fiscal rules to make room in the Budget for more spending in an election year.
The two’s plans to leave were already known when secretaries Funchal and Bittencourt left their posts in October. An economics source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported that they had been talking about leaving since the middle of last year.
At that time, the Ministry of Economy was preparing the 2022 Budget project and the internal debate within the government had already intensified around the resources to increase resources for the program that would replace the Bolsa Família, months later named Auxílio Brasil.
According to the design of the Federal Budget Secretariat (SOF), undersecretary Luiz Guilherme’s area was very overloaded, and Márcio Luiz was very close to former SOF secretary, George Soares, who left office in 2021, after successive direct attacks by the political wing of the government and congressional leaders. Márcio stayed to make a transition. In a way, he’s been dissatisfied since George left in May.
Even without having a drop of water at the moment, behind the fatigue reported by the undersecretaries, there is a general annoyance with the direction of budget management and the recurrent practice of underestimating mandatory expenses (such as payments of salaries and Social Security benefits) at the time approval of the Budget to accommodate more spending, particularly parliamentary amendments.
This maneuver was used in the 2021 Budget and generated the biggest political crisis after the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, warned President Jair Bolsonaro that the law passed was “unenforceable”. The technicians had to negotiate the partial veto. Although with smaller amounts, the problem is now repeated in the sanction of the 2022 budget law, whose deadline ends this Friday, 21. As Estadão showed, the presidential veto should not correct all the problems of underestimated expenses. That is, not all the reallocation of expenses that the technicians deem necessary will be carried out. The cut should focus on parliamentary committee amendments, the so-called RP-8 to spare the amendments that are the basis of the secret budget, the RP-9.
This week, two other secretaries and a director of the Ministry of Economy resigned from their positions. The Secretary of Management of the Special Secretariat for Debureaucratization, Management and Digital Government, Cristiano Rocha Heckert, are leaving the economic team; the Secretary of Evaluation, Planning, Energy and Lottery, linked to the Treasury Department, Gustavo José de Guimarães e Souza; and the Program director of the Federal Revenue Service, Mauro Sergio Bogea Soares.
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