After veto, Bolsonaro talks about ‘partial solution’ to allow MEIs to renegotiate debts

After fully vetoing a project that would allow the renegotiation of tax debts for MEIs (individual microentrepreneurs) and Simples Nacional companies, President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) said, this Monday (10), that the government intends to adopt a “solution partial” to allow micro-entrepreneurs who contracted debts during the pandemic to renegotiate them.

“Today we must have a decision to serve the MEI staff who took out a loan on the occasion of the pandemic, so that this can be renegotiated,” Bolsonaro declared, during an interview with a radio station in Rio Grande do Sul.

“We want a partial solution now and with the return of Parliament I am sure that Parliament will override the veto”.

The government’s decision to fully veto the proposal generated unease between the Palácio do Planalto and the team of Minister Paulo Guedes (Economy).

During his weekly live on Thursday (6), Bolsonaro showed opposition to the guidance of members of the economic team in favor of vetoing the text.

“How are things, right? The guy wanting me to veto Simples Nacional,” Bolsonaro said at the time, apparently not knowing that the broadcast had started.

In the radio interview on Monday, Bolsonaro argued that he was forced to veto the text so as not to violate the electoral legislation and because of the LRF (Law of Fiscal Responsibility).

He also called for Congress to override its own presidential veto.

“If I sanction, I tell you, I am in progress in the Fiscal Responsibility Law, it is called a crime of responsibility; and I would also answer before the electoral legislation because in an election year there are certain things I cannot sanction nor can I present a project in that sense” , declared.

“But Parliament, by overturning the veto, I hope — I’m sure it will override the veto — the issue will be resolved,” he said.