After asking Congress for R$ 1.7 billion to grant a salary increase to police officers, President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said this Saturday (8) that “no one is guaranteed a readjustment”.
The president’s change of tone publicly occurs in the face of increased pressure from other categories of the civil service for readjustment. There is a threat of strike for the next 18th.
“Firstly, no adjustment is guaranteed for anyone. There is a reserve of R$ 2 billion that you can use, it could be used for PF, PRF, and also for the prison system staff, but nothing is guaranteed in that regard. “, he stated.
The president’s statement to journalists was in front of Bruno Bianco’s (AGU) house, where Bolsonaro is attending the minister’s birthday party.
Like leaf showed, the readjustment to federal police, federal highways and penitentiary agents was requested by Bolsonaro himself to the economic team.
When the 2022 budget rapporteur, Hugo Leal (PSD-RJ), removed the forecast of these resources from his text, at the end of December, he received a call from the president himself in favor of the police.
It is quite unusual for Bolsonaro to be involved in this way in the articulation of agendas in Congress. The police are part of the electoral base of the president.
In the end, funds were reserved for the readjustment, but there is no provision in the text that it will be exclusively for police careers.
“Some took this here [R$ 1,7 bilhão] and said ‘I want it too’. And this whole wave was made… The servers have not been readjusted for three years, they had the Social Security reform. I recognize that they have lost a lot of purchasing power,” he said.
Although the Chief Executive signals a change of tone and says that there is no space in the Budget, ministries are already working on the proposal for a readjustment for police careers.
Like leaf showed, the government was already studying, in December, equal the salary of a PF delegate, at the last career level, to that of a STF minister (Supreme Federal Court) – on the roof of officialdom.
Bolsonaro was advised by the government leader in the Chamber, Ricardo Barros (PP-PR), to do not grant readjustment for any category this year, as a way to contain the strike movement that arises.
Civil servants unions are mobilizing to get at least part of this budget or get more space in the Budget aimed at correcting salaries of civil servants.
According to the government’s calculations, each linear increase of 1% to all civil servants generates an impact of R$ 3 billion for the Union.
Representatives of the civil service elite say that most federal civil servants are 27.2% off their salary, as there has been no readjustment since 2017.
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