President Luiz Inácio da Silva () returned to Brasília this Thursday (19) in a scenario of tension with the dollar on the rise and in Congress, during the last week of activities before the parliamentary recess.
It is in this context, to which the financial market responded with a rise in the dollar (which arrived), that , after recovering from the emergency surgery he had on his head.
The package, led by Minister Fernando Haddad (Finance), began to be voted on on Tuesday (17). In Wednesday’s session, opposition parliamentarians made fake dollar bills with Lula’s face printed on them, alluding to the rise in the currency.
Lula had been hospitalized since December 10th in São Paulo, at the request of doctors, as a result of internal bleeding resulting from his fall in the bathroom in October. The president was discharged last Sunday (15).
His arrival in the capital was by helicopter straight to Palácio da Alvorada, after undergoing tests at Hospital Sírio Libanês.
On Wednesday night, the Chamber postponed the vote on part of the package, leaving the PEC that deals with Super Salaries — — and the .
The House decided to postpone it to avoid the risk of defeat, as there was no minimum quorum necessary to vote on changes to the Constitution.
This is because factors such as the delay in starting voting, the inclusion of proposals unrelated to the topic on the agenda and the return of many parliamentarians to their states hampered the process, according to . For them, the scenario made it difficult to guarantee the approval of cost containment measures in 2024.
While Tuesday was about approvals apart from the package, Wednesday was about dehydrations to the measures proposed by the Lula government, such as allowing the blocking of only part of the parliamentary amendments to comply with the limits of the fiscal framework.
Mariana Brasil, Victoria Azevedo and Idiana Tomazelli, from Brasília, collaborated
LINK PRESENT: Did you like this text? Subscribers can access seven free accesses from any link per day. Just click the blue F below.
