In a public hearing in the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, said this Wednesday (17th) that the new fiscal framework is being built in order to “depolarize” the country. One of the main articulators of the government with Congress to make the proposal viable, the minister stated that he has been dialoguing with parliamentarians from the government base and the opposition. “When you have a House with 513 parliamentarians with different views, the rapporteur did a job to try to find that expanded center, let’s say, to obtain the intended result, not only the 257 votes to approve a complementary law, but a larger space 300, 350 votes, to signal the country that this center is being reinforced, that we are depolarizing the country for the good of the country itself,” he said. “We are seeking to balance public accounts with social justice,” he added. To speed up the processing of the proposal, the mayor, deputy Arthur Lira (PP-AL), scheduled the vote on the emergency regime for today. The analysis of the merits is scheduled for next Wednesday (24). The text was presented yesterday (16), by the rapporteur, deputy Cláudio Cajado (PP-BA), in an interview to the press. The parliamentarian’s proposal included triggers to force the cut and containment of expenses in case of non-compliance with the fiscal target. New fiscal rules Called the Sustainable Fiscal Regime by the rapporteur, the bill provides that, in the event of non-compliance with the targets, there will be contingency (blocking) of discretionary expenses. Cajado’s text establishes the adoption, in the year following the non-compliance, of automatic measures to control mandatory expenses, such as not granting a real increase in mandatory expenses and suspending the creation of new public positions and the granting of benefits above inflation . If the non-compliance happens for the second consecutive year, new prohibitions will be added to the existing ones, such as the increase of salaries in the civil service, admission or hiring of personnel and public tenders (in the last two points, the exception is for replacement of vacant positions) . According to Cajado, the real readjustment of the minimum wage will be out of the triggers, with an increase above inflation. Initially, there was also a forecast to remove Bolsa Família from the spending limit. The deputy explained that the benefit will also be subject to general rules for it to be readjusted above inflation. The Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, pointed out that the voting calendar has the endorsement of party leaders, including the opposition, and was agreed on Monday night (15th), after a meeting at the official residence of the President of the Chamber of Deputies. deputies. In an interview yesterday, Padilha assessed that the agreement built with party leaders and the rapporteur left the proposal “balanced and calibrated”.
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