“President Lula is analyzing all the measures that must be taken and discussing the start of the transition,” Paulo Rocha, leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) Senate bloc, told Télam.during one of the breaks in the meeting that takes place in a hotel in the Vila Mariana neighborhood, in São Paulo.
The meeting must define the roadmap that the transition coordinator, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, will draw in Brasilia with the outgoing Bolsonaro government.
Lula, after the historic victory of October 30, took a vacation on the beach of Trancoso, in southern Bahia, and today he returned to the formality of work.
Two kilometers from the hotel where Lula’s team was meeting in São Paulo, in front of the Army barracks, hundreds of Bolsonarists staged a vigil to ignore the results of the October 30 elections won by Lula and which have been held since last week. in the place waiting for a general to attend to their demands.
the meeting of Lula will also have to define the PT leader’s trip to Egypt next weeksince he was invited to participate as president-elect of the UN COP27 climate change summit, to which Brazil will officially attend with its next Environment Minister, Joaquim Leite.
According to the UOL portal, Bolsonaro described Lula as a “usurper” for agreeing to go to the summit on an issue in which the far-right is seen as an enemy of the environmental and climate movement.
Four candidates for Economics
The economic reality of Brazil is far from the boom of the 2000s, when Lula it was able to finance its social policies by surfing the ‘boom’ of raw materials.
He promised to reconcile “fiscal, social and sustainable responsibility,” but he keeps the market in suspense over the definition of who will be his finance minister, an uncertainty that extends to all portfolios.
Unlike Bolsonaro, who created a “superministry” of Economy, Lula plans to split the portfolio into three: Finance, Planning and Industry and Commerce.
“The market will react according to the names that make up the group,” assured Adriano Laureno, from the consulting firm Prospectiva.
in Saint Paul, Lula is meeting with three candidates for economy ministers. On the one hand, the former São Paulo mayor and defeated candidate for governor of that state, Fernando Haddad, who heads the payroll.
Also appearing among the possible elected senator-elect and former governor of Piaui Wellington Daysthe federal deputy and former Minister of Health Alexandre Padilha, and Aloizio Mercadante, coordinator of the Lula government program.
The president-elect has negotiated a constitutional amendment with the right-wing Centrao bloc, today with Bolsonaro, to alter the budget through a constitutional amendment and thus have a cushion of resources to pay 21 million families for the Bolsa Familia program, of 600 reais (120 Dollars).
The budget sent by Bolsonaro did not provide for the continuation of social assistance or the Popular Pharmacy program for retirees.
According to the local press, Congress asks Lula in exchange to keep part of the so-called “secret budget”, the use of items that are used with discretion by some parliamentarians to bring resources directly to their municipalities, without the participation or planning of the Executive, a model adopted by Bolsonaro to protect himself from 2020 from a possible political trial.
Source: Ambito
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