President of the PT states that the Central Bank's monetary policy “threatens” the country and criticizes “exorbitant interest rates”
The president of the PT (Workers' Party), the federal deputy Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), criticized again, this Sunday (March 3, 2024), the B.C. (Central bank). “They want to subject Brazil to a monetary dictatorship”, he said. The comment comes after the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo having published an interview with the president of the BC, Roberto Campos Neto, in which he says he is willing to talk to the government about the possibility of expanding the entity's autonomy. Her too stated on his profile on X (ex-Twitter) that the “exorbitant interest” of the BC harm the Brazilian economy, since “they dropped investments and stagnated growth” in the 2nd semester. “It’s a monetary policy that continues to threaten the country, but we don’t see a line of criticism in the media about it”wrote the deputy.
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