The Meeting Between the Vice President-elect, Geraldo Alcumen, and the General Rapporteur of the Mixed Budget Committee, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI) was the beginning of the meetings of the transition team of the President-elect, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The goal is to discuss budget adjustments and make room for social programs that have lost resources.
In addition to guaranteeing Brazil’s R$600 aid, the new government’s idea is to replace resources from the People’s Pharmacy Program, which has been reduced in the current government’s proposal for the 2023 budget.
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“At this stage we are dealing with critical points to get from them to the numbers needed for 2023. Accordingly, the technical team is focusing on working on the questionnaires so that they can clarify what is the value needed for each region. What is the amount required for a popular pharmacy? for school lunch? And based on To that we will have a definition of the number,” said Wellington Dias (Labour), the senator elected by Piaui and one of those responsible for discussing the budget in the transitional period.
Dias met, in the late afternoon (3), with Senators Jean-Paul Prates (PT-RN), Paulo Rocha (PT-PA), and Acir Gurgacz (PDT-RO), as well as Representatives Jose Guimarães ( PT-RO). ), Paolo Pimenta (PT-RS) and Eno Ferri (PT-PR) in the Senate Labor leadership room. Dias and the technical team plan to provide on Tuesday (8) the amount needed to guarantee social programs and the amount of R$600 in aid next year. In the 2023 Annual Budget Bill (LOA), sent to Congress, the current government provided R$405 in aid.
“Tuesday is a very important date for us to get a solution on understanding the text of the constitutional amendment and also the presentation of values, to give time for a vote in both houses, both the budget law with the amendments and also in order to ensure approval of the constitutional amendment,” said the senator-elect and member of the transition team.
According to Dias, the transition team is working to introduce an amendment to the constitution, called an emergency transitional PEC, to guarantee R$600. The rest of the budget adjustments will be made within the LOA project.
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