Lula adds the architects of the Real Plan to his team

Lula adds the architects of the Real Plan to his team

Both will participate in the transition government’s economics group, which will also include Guilherme Mello, who leads the team that prepares the economic proposals for Lula at the left-wing think tank Perseu Abramo, and Nelson Barbosa, former Minister of Finance and Planning.

“The economics technical group will have André Lara Resende, Guillerme Melo, Nelson Barbosa and Persio Arida, four great economists”Alckmin commented.

Resende Y arid They worked on formulating the royal planof the government of the president Fernando Henrique Cardozo of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB, center), two professionals in tune with the market perspectives. From the transition team They have not yet confirmed names for the Ministry of Economy.

Arida was president of the Central Bank of Brazil for a brief period during the Cardozo government, between January and June 1995, while Resende presided over the entity in 1993. Together they wrote different publications in the 1980s in which they reflected the ideas that then they would be used to implement the Real Plan.

Former Minister of Finance Guido Mantega he will also be part of the transition group, Alckmin said, hinting that he will work in an area other than economics.

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Simone Tebet and Family Bag

In addition, the elected vice president confirmed that the former presidential candidate Simone Tebet, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) , will be responsible for “the most urgent, which is the social issue, to guarantee the Bolsa Família of 600 reais“, said Alckmin, head of the transition cabinet, which was divided into thematic areas.

Tebet’s appointment could be a first step towards his appointment in the future Lula government, according to analysts from the newspapers O Globo and Estado de Sao Paulo.

“President Lula was very clear, we don’t want two Brazilians, we want to unite the whole world by attending to those who are most in need, who are suffering,” said Alckmin, a centrist politician, along with Gleisi Hoffmann, head of the PT, in a conference press release given shortly before 4:30 p.m. in Brasilia.

Source: Ambito

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