Anti-Haddad manifesto creates non-PT streak

The PT, the president’s party (PT), signed a manifesto together with other acronyms from the government’s allied base in which it criticizes the spending cuts drawn up by the Minister of Finance. Still to be presented, the review of expenses has been dragging on for weeks, but .

The manifesto (read the full text below) criticizes the proposed cuts and the limitation of adjustments to social programs, such as the BPC (Continuous Payment Benefit) and unemployment insurance. Two other areas with possible restrictions in the package are health and education. There is resistance from Lula, the PT and left-wing parties that currently support the Planalto.

“Now they want to cut into the flesh of the majority of the people, advancing their machete over historic achievements such as the real readjustment of the minimum wage and its link to pensions and the BPC, unemployment insurance, worker rights over the FGTS, constitutional floors health and education”, says an excerpt from the manifesto.

The document also takes the opportunity to criticize the government of the former president (PL). He questions where the critics of what he considers to be a “non-existent fiscal crisis” when inflation was close to 12%, in May 2022.

“The financial power, the markets and their spokespeople in the media raise the specter of a non-existent fiscal crisis, when what we are experiencing is the recovery of the economic fundamentals, destroyed by the previous government. Where were these critics when Bolsonaro and Guedes destroyed public budgets and Brazil’s credibility?” says the manifesto.

PRO-HADDAD WING

A long-time ally of President Lula, the federal deputy (PT-SP) was one of those who criticized the party’s heading in the manifesto. According to him, the PT cannot be in opposition to its own management and “pretending that it is not government or ignoring the clear limits of the public budget”.

“It is not reasonable for our leaders to propagate that the measures currently being debated in the government are unnecessary or that they would just be market whims”, declared.

(SP) this year, states that the party can and should debate the government, its measures and conduct, “but never in a climate of confrontation and much less in the media”.

ALA ANTI-HADDAD

the president of the PT, (PT-PR), criticized newspapers that, according to her, expect “impose on the government and the country the sacrifice of retirees, workers, health and education”.

“They may even match the frenetic neoliberalism of the past government, but not with the government that was elected to rebuild the country. They invert the equation of the real economy, which requires more credit and investments to continue growing, and threaten with more interest and more speculation with the exchange rate, as if this would bring about fiscal balance and reduce inflation”, wrote on his X account (formerly Twitter).

According to the federal deputy, President Lula acts cautiously, responsibly, and has resisted pressure from the market and his spokespeople in the media.

READ THE MANIFESTO

“We have been following, with growing concern, news and editorials in the media that aim to constrain the federal government to ‘structurally’ cut budgetary resources and other sources of funding for public policies aimed at health, education, workers, retirees and elderly, as well as investment programs in infrastructure for the country’s growth.

“These are unacceptable pressures that come from a privileged minority for unfair and indecent tax exemptions and exemptions; those who manipulate the setting of the highest interest rates on the planet and who blackmail the government and the country, speculating with the dollar and on the stock markets.

“At a time when the federal government, elected to rebuild the country, has been obtaining significant results in the recovery of the population’s employment, salary and income levels, such advances are presented as a pretext to further force an increase in the basic rate of interest, when the country and its productive forces demand exactly the opposite: more credit and more investment to make the economy spin.

“The financial power, the markets and their spokespeople in the media raise the specter of a non-existent fiscal crisis, when what we are experiencing is the recovery of the economic fundamentals, destroyed by the previous government. Where were these critics when Bolsonaro and Guedes disrupted Brazil’s public budgets and credibility? Where were they when inflation was heading towards 12%?

“Now they want to cut into the flesh of the majority of the people, advancing their machete over historic achievements such as the real readjustment of the minimum wage and its link to pensions and the BPC, unemployment insurance, worker rights over the FGTS, constitutional floors of health and education.

“And they say nothing about what is most responsible for the growth of public debt, which is the abusive and growing interest rate. They say nothing about tax exemptions for sectors that make a lot of profit without generating jobs, including the media; the immoral exemption from taxes on profits and dividends nor the refusal to tax large fortunes, on the part of a majority in Congress that appropriates increasingly larger slices of the Budget.

“Enough of hypocrisy and blackmail! Cutting resources from those who need the State and public investments will only take the country back to a past of exclusion and injustice that social movements and people have been fighting for a long time, every day, to transform into a better and fairer society.”

WHO SIGNED

• ABGLT (Brazilian Association of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals and Intersex);
• Anpae (National Association of Education Policy and Administration);
• ABrES (Brazilian Association of Health Economics);
• Abecs (Brazilian Social Sciences Teaching Association);
• Abrasco (Brazilian Public Health Association);
• Asfoc/SN (Union of Science, Technology, Production and Innovation in Public Health Servers);
• United Network Association
• Candaces
• CMP (Center for Popular Movements);
• CNTE (National Confederation of Education Workers);
• CNTSS (National Confederation of Social Security Workers);
• CPLP (Education Trade Union Confederation of Portuguese Speaking Countries);
• Contag (National Confederation of Agricultural Workers);
• Contee (National Confederation of Workers in Educational Establishments);
• CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores);
• Fenapsi (Federation of Unions of Administrative Technical Workers in Public Higher Education Institutions in Brazil);
• Fenas (National Federation of Social Workers);
• Fenapsi (National Federation of Psychologists);
• Fineduca (National Association for Research in Education Financing);
• FNPE (National Popular Education Forum);
• Fire in the Wick;
• Popular Brazil Front;
• Feed (Front of Evangelicals for the Rule of Law);
• Front For Life;
• People Without Fear Front;
• Inesc (Institute of Socioeconomic Studies);
• IFFD (Institute of Functional Finance for Development);
• Interunion;
• Manifest Youth;
• MAM (Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining);
• MBP;
• MMM;
• MNU (Unified Black Movement);
• MPA (Small Farmers Movement);
• MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement);
• MTC;
• MTST (Homeless Workers Movement);
• PCdoB;
• PDT;
• Psol;
• PT;
• MMT Brazil Network;
• Resistance;
• Two;
• No Rights;
• Overturned;
• Transform Unicamp.