President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared this Thursday (16), that “a miracle happened” in Brazil to allow the approval of tax reform in this new term. The president mentioned that, when starting his third term, there were predictions that he would face difficulties in governing, due to the lack of a majority in Congress and the increase in Legislative control over the Union Budget.
“A miracle happened in the behavior of the Chamber and the Senate. When I was elected in 2002, what was most talked about was that I wouldn’t be able to govern the country and that I wouldn’t last a single term, because we would be a failure”, said the president, remembering when he was elected for the first time, in 2002. ” The concrete fact is that things worked out and I was re-elected. I was elected due to very successful governance, because of the team I had and the behavior of Congress”, he added.
“Now, when I was elected (in 2022), I heard that it was impossible to govern this country at a time when Congress had stolen the President’s Budget and that the right had elected more people than the left. Many people said that it would be impossible to govern and approve the tax reform, because the government was very minority”, he stated, praising that the democratic regime allowed dialogue and debate on the proposal so that it could be approved after decades.
Lula also said that “when we believe that it is possible to do something, it happens” and that “to make something happen, we need to have the right people”.
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Published by Carol Santos
