The Minister of the Civil House and chief of the PP, Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), said this Sunday (13) that he is in favor of approving the PEC (proposed amendment to the Constitution) of the Transition, which aims to guarantee the payment of Auxílio Brasil (which will be called Bolsa Família) of R$ 600.
Nogueira, who is a minister to President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and will resume his mandate as senator in 2023, also said he is in favor of including the real increase in the minimum wage in the proposal.
He stated, however, that the project must serve to remove from the expenditure ceiling only the costs of these social benefits related to the first year of government.
The intention of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (PT) transition team, however, is to approve a PEC that leaves Bolsa Família out of the ceiling for at least four years.
“The position I will defend in Progressistas is to approve a PEC, yes, but for the transition, to guarantee stability for the first year of government”, said Nogueira, one of the most influential names in the PP, in a note.
And he added: “The current Congress, which is leaving, cannot revoke the prerogative of the new one, which arrives legitimized by the people at the polls and has not even assumed it yet. It cannot endorse decisions for the next four years in the dark.”
The minister also ruled out the possibility of other costs being included in the proposal that should be voted on in Congress later this year.
“The Transition PEC, as its name says, is for the transition. It should only guarantee the common points of the two candidacies: R$ 600 in aid and a real increase in the minimum wage in 2023”, he said.
Elected senator Wellington Dias (PT-PI), representative of the Lula government’s transition team to the Budget, however, said on Friday (11) that the idea is to remove Bolsa Família from the ceiling for at least four years and that BRL 175 billion would be excluded from the spending limit in 2023 alone.
“You have a forecast of R$ 105 billion in the Budget. You need R$ 52 billion to put another R$ 200 above the R$ 400 that were forecast, and you need another R$ 18 billion to guarantee the [benefício de R$ 150] of children, guarantee money for families who have children. It’s R$175 billion off the ceiling,” she said.
In the note, Ciro Nogueira took the opportunity to criticize the economic project of the elected government. “All parliamentarians who make up the base of the current government and support an economic agenda diametrically opposed to the one that was elected and is still unknown in the details have the right to freely position themselves”.
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