Elected president of Brazil for the third time at the end of October, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said in a speech shortly after the victory that he would immediately begin to assemble a team and raise the current situation in the country to be able to govern from January 2023 .
Without a detailed government program, Lula’s campaign was accused of wanting a blank check to govern.
Supported in the second round by former opponents, such as Senator Simone Tebet and the president of the PDT, Carlos Lupi, Lula accepted to accept proposals from the allies and, days before the second round, released a document called “Carta para o Brasil do Amanhã” , with 13 priority points—actually a summary of the promises announced throughout the campaign.
In addition to the two texts, as a candidate, the PT also made promises in debates on TV, in its electoral propaganda and in interviews
With the election over, the main challenge for Lula and his team now will be to make the promises fit in next year’s Budget, which would require obtaining a license from Congress to spend more than the ceiling allows.
Agriculture and environment
| Resumption of agrarian reform |
| Establish buffer stocks and support food production |
| Strengthening of Conab, with support for small and medium rural producers |
| Invest heavily in Embrapa |
| Maintain and invest in the Safra Plan, Pronamp and Pronaf |
| Support for low carbon and family farming |
| Reduce interest rates on Plano Safra, Pronamp and Pronaf “for producers committed to environmental and social criteria” |
| Establish a minimum price policy for food |
| Achieve Paris Conference carbon gas emission reduction targets |
| Recovery of land degraded by predatory activities |
| Reforestation of devastated areas |
| Conservation of Brazilian biodiversity and ecosystems |
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Implement Degraded Pasture Recovery Plan – recover 30 million hectares
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Foreign trade
| Recover active and proud foreign policy and rebuild international South-South cooperation |
| Strengthen Mercosur, Unasil, Celac and Brics |
Communications, technology and innovation
| Ensure quality internet throughout the territory and the right to be included in the connectivity environment |
| Universalize broadband in schools |
| Stimulus to the creative, solidary and sustainable economy |
Public Accounts
| Repeal spending cap and reshape the Brazilian tax regime |
| End the current model of amendments by the rapporteur and propose participatory budgeting via the internet |
Credit and debt
| End the current model of amendments by the rapporteur and propose participatory budgeting via the internet |
| Regulation and measures to expand supply and reduce credit costs, with greater competition in the banking system |
| Public banks as drivers of the economy |
| Low interest credit for micro and small entrepreneurs |
| Renegotiate family debts |
| Policies to promote and strengthen networks and production chains and other cooperative initiatives |
Inequality
| Maintenance of the allowance of BRL 600 + BRL 150 per child |
| Recreate Ministry of Social Equality |
| Create public policies to promote racial equality and combat racism |
| Expand social benefits of investments for indigenous, quilombola, gypsy, traditional, vulnerable and marginalized populations |
| Take Brazil off the hunger map |
| Rebuild Light for All and cistern program |
| Moving towards Universal Basic Income |
Energy/fuels and mining
| New pricing policy at Petrobras – Brazilianize fuel prices and expand production of derivatives |
| Diversification of the energy matrix, taking advantage of pre-salt |
| Zero emission of greenhouse gases in the electrical matrix |
| Improve mining regulation standards and combat illegal mining in the Amazon |
State and privatization
| Use of state-owned companies for economic development |
| Closure of inefficient state-owned companies |
| Do not privatize Petrobras |
| Reverse privatization of Eletrobras |
| Do not privatize Correios |
Public administration
| Recreate Ministry of Fisheries |
| Recreate Ministry of Planning |
| Managing the economy “with credibility, responsibility and predictability” |
Industry
| Promote reindustrialization on new technological and environmental bases |
| Raise the rate of public and private investment and maintain an industrial park in Brazil |
| Fostering the Health Industrial Complex |
| Emphasis on software, defense, telecommunications and new technologies industries |
Inflation
| Reduce food inflation |
| Lower the price of diesel and food, medicine and other products |
Infrastructure and housing
| Resumption of investments in infrastructure and housing |
| Propose urban reform with investments in public transport, housing, basic sanitation and social facilities |
| New public investment program in transport, social and urban logistics |
| Stimulate private investment in Brazil with concessions, credit, partnerships and guarantees |
| Resuming works stopped by the Bolsonaro government |
| Create a new PAC (growth acceleration program) |
| Investment in major public works |
| Guarantee the right to water and universalize basic sanitation |
| Resume My Home My Life |
Micro and small companies
| Attention to micro and small companies, especially startups |
| Create the “Empreende Brasil” program, with low interest credit. |
Pensions, work and income
| Change in the Brazilian social security model |
| Conduct more contests and readjust the salary of federal servants |
| Propose new labor legislation |
| Minimum wage readjustment above inflation |
| Scholarship for those who complete high school |
| Expand vocational technical education |
| Ministry of Women with actions in health, work and the fight against violence |
| Wage parity between men and women |
| Legislation for work by apps and home office |
| union restructuring |
Taxation
| Combat tax evasion |
| Do not change the legislation on ICMS ceiling |
| Tax exemption for those who earn less than R$ 5,000 |
| Maintain tax benefits of the Manaus Free Trade Zone |
| Tax the super rich |
| Simplification of taxes |
| Reduction of consumption taxes |
| Exemption of products with higher added value |
| Income Tax Exemption for those who earn up to BRL 5,000 monthly |
Tourism
| Resume investments in tourism infrastructure and qualification of workers in the sector |
