New minister has already been forcibly removed from Congress in 2014

The new Minister of Mines and Energy, Adolfo Sachsida, was forcibly removed from a gallery in the Federal Congress by the Legislative Police in 2014 during a protest. The photos of the time returned to circulate this week, after he assumed the new post.

In the episode, which took place on December 2 of that year, a bill was discussed in Congress that would allow the government of Dilma Rousseff (PT) to breach the target for public accounts. It would be the first year of the country’s deficit, which never left the red.

In the midst of the opposition’s offensive to postpone the analysis of the project, parliamentarians from the allied base began to complain about the protest that had chants of “out PT”, “the PT stole” and “go to Cuba”.

At the time, Sachsida was already a public servant at IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research). The confusion started right at the beginning of the work, when the opposition tried to give access to the more than 200 protesters who asked to follow the vote. 50 people were allowed to enter the upper part of the plenary.

report of Sheet At the time, the temperature rose when deputy Jandira Feghali (PCdoB-RJ) said that Senator Vanessa Grazziotin (PCdoB-AM), who was speaking in the tribune, was called a “vagabunda”. The then president of Congress, Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), decided to suspend the session to remove the protesters.

A group of 15 opposition deputies decided to prevent the exit and went to the galleries to make a cordon. The Legislative Police reacted with shoves and truculence. A 79-year-old woman, Ruth Gomes de Sá, linked to the PSDB, took a security guard’s tie.

An agent even hit a man with a gun that shoots electrical charges. He passed out for a few seconds and was carried by parliamentarians. In the riot, deputy Mendonça Filho (DEM-PE) even rolled down the stairs.

Over the course of more than an hour, protesters shouted “Get out Renan” and “Congress is a corral”, in addition to attacks on the government. They identified themselves as members of the “Free Brazil and Democracy Now Movement”, with caravans from São Paulo, Pernambuco, the Federal District, among others. They recognized that they were mobilized by opposition parliamentarians.

With the confusion, Renan closed the session and called for a new vote. The postponement put the government on alert, since a surplus of R$ 116.1 billion would be needed that year (value at the time) and there was no way to fulfill it.

The text was approved in the following days. The maneuver allowed spending on tax exemptions and the PAC (Growth Acceleration Program, which allocated billions to public works in the PT era) to be deducted from the target account. With that, a deficit was allowed – which ended up being R$ 23 billion (at the values ​​of the time).

Minister Paulo Guedes (Economy) took over promising to eliminate the deficit as soon as possible and even declared that it would be possible to reach the blue mark as early as 2019, in the first year of government. The goal was not met either before or after the pandemic, which required hundreds of billions in emergency spending.

Recently, the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government proposed a fiscal target that authorizes a deficit of around R$66 billion in 2023, the first year of the next president of the Republic.

The scenario outlined by the technicians shows that the accounts will remain in the negative in 2024 and only have a chance of returning to the black in 2025. With this, Brazil will have at least 11 years of deficit.

To cover this hole, the country needs to borrow money. Today, the forecast is that the federal debt will reach R$ 6.4 trillion in 2022.