The crisis with the congress aggravated this week after the government has resorted to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to restore the decree that increases the tax on financial transactions (IOF), accentuated in the Palazzo Planalto the perception that the election campaign of next year has already been placed. Invested orchestrated in networks and speeches under the motto of “tax justice” will be strengthened – while the government has to face a scenario of growing and constant loss of popularity in the management of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, according to the polls.
This Wednesday 2, when he participated in Salvador in the celebrations of July 2, Bahia Independent Day, Lula showed a poster that asked for the “taxation of super rich”. The pedestal shared a photo of the act on its social networks. In the image, it appears next to the First Lady, Rosângela da Silva, Janja and the governor of Bahia, Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT).
The government will double the bet and make a new political controversy with the allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), anticipating the tone of the 2026 campaign. After having resurrected “us against them”, Lula’s team now prepares a strategy to reach the middle class. The idea is to try to demonstrate that the richest are isolated because, from Planalto calculations, 99% of the population defends “tax justice” and only 1% is against.
Lula will be the “engine” of the concept that, to keep public finances balanced, the government will tax “which has always paid little or almost nothing”. All the ministers were also told to hit the same key, regardless of the impact of the clash on the congress.
“I know that there is an ideological dispute in the country, but let’s go to the results. We are talking about the Portuguese to people,” said the Finance Minister Tuesday 1st, Fernando Haddad, participating in the launch ceremony of the company plan at the Plandal Palace. “Are they patriots who think that when the economy is going well, is the country bad?” He provoked.
Background
Since last week, when the congress canceled Lula’s decree that increased the Iof, Planalto understood that the background of the struggle was far beyond the tribute. In the list of factors that contributed to the defeat in the legislator are the clashes for positions, the dissatisfaction with the delay in paying parliamentary amendments, market complaints and 2026 elections.
Lula was annoyed by a video released on social networks by the mayor, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), saying that “those who nourish us against them end up governing everyone”.
The president defended on Wednesday 2, the judiciary of the case of the increase in Iof and said that there was a “non -compliance with the closed agreement” between the congress and the government on the subject. “If I don’t appeal to the judiciary, you no longer government the country.” Lula was difficult to call Motta’s decision to lead the project of the legislative decree to overturn the AIF ascent, “absurd”.
The pedestal said that the decree that signed on the IF was not a “increase in taxes”, but a “tax adjustment so that the richest pays a little and we must not cut the education and money of health”. “There was betting pressure, the Fintech, I don’t know if there was a pressure from the financial system,” Lula said in an interview with TV Bahia, affiliate of TV Globo. “The interests of a few prevailed in the Chamber and the Senate, which is absurd.”
Countryside
In the offensive for “tax justice”, the PT created the “BBB taxation tax: billionaires, banks and bets” campaign. “They are banks, bets and fair billionaires (BBB) don’t you want to pay taxes?” He asked the Minister of the Secretariat of Social Communication, Sidônio Palmeira, with reference to the videos issued by the party. “These are not poor against the rich. The middle class also pays high taxes. It is 99% against 1%,” he said, indicating the new communication strategy.
The monitoring by Planalto shows that, on social networks, the refused version of “We Against Them” has exceeded expectations, exceeding pocket posts in the number of interactions.
Yesterday the PT evoked digital influencers to strengthen the new strategy. With the support of the Planalto, the party summit brought about 270 content and supporters breeders in a virtual meeting to encourage them to give the “BBB Campaign” campaign. “
Although the government allies are also afraid of this left turn, the topic used by the ministers is that Lula cannot sell why, if he does, the congress overturns all the measures of interest for the Planalto.
There is, however, the expectation in the government itself that the Supreme Court leads a political agreement before making a decision. The Court’s ministers evaluate that a conciliation would be the best way to impasse that involves the Iof. The rapporteur of the case is Alexandre de Moraes.
Yesterday, in Buenos Aires, Haddad reiterated Estadão/Transmission That the economic team depends on the decree that increased the IOF to ensure compliance with the tax objective of next year, a surplus of 0.25% of GDP. “All this must regain the net revenues of 2011,” he said. When asked about the possibility that the Supreme Court promote a conciliation on the subject, he avoided positioning himself, but he stressed that he had never stolen the dialogue.
“I don’t know how Minister Alexandre (from Moraes) will send him. It would be rude to me to make me advance before talking to him. He is in Portugal, I am in Argentina. It is a delicate topic. He needs adequate treatment, also to avoid intrigue,” said Haddad. “They never move away from dialogue.”
The general defense of the Union (AGU) – which presented the appeal to the Supreme – argued that the elevation of the AIF is in the exclusive skills of the manager. The congress, in turn, includes that the government has extrapolated its power because the federal tax – paid by individuals and legal entities and that it focuses on various credit, exchange, insurance and others operations – could not be changed for collection purposes.
Despite the criticisms of the mayor, Lula said not to have considered that his government lives in a moment of “breakage” with the legislature and said he recognized “the rights of the congress”.
“The President of the Republic does not break with the Congress. The President of the Republic recognizes the role that the congress has, they have their rights, I have my rights. Nor are I on their right nor go to my right. And when the two do not understand each other, justice is resolved.”
Lula said that when Brics’ summit returns, which will be held next weekend in Rio de Janeiro, he intends to meet Motta and the president of the Senate David Alcolumbe (União Brasil-AP) to try to reach an agreement.
The information comes from the newspaper The state of St. Paul.
Source: Terra
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