After two months, the Minister of Finance, (PT), sketches a reaction in defense of his management and political capital, following the recommendation of the President ().
At Lula’s suggestion, Haddad will give more interviews and travel the country to defend economic policy.
In conversations, Haddad admits a period of rebate after the crisis caused by the dissemination of taxation of operations via. But you often repeat that you are standing.
To these interlocutors the minister recalls adversities faced in more than 25 years of public life to say that he does not “be delivering the” or “guard” points.
In the word of allies, the minister became the key. In addition to Lula’s counseling, the counterfensive is born from the realization that, without the emphatic defense of economic policy in the PT, nor could he only protect his image from opposition attacks.
In these conversations, Haddad recalls his difficult candidacy for the city of São Paulo in 2016, the president’s impeachment year, also PT. Candidate for reelection in an unfavorable scenario, in which he was defeated in the first round, Haddad went to the streets to defend his legacy.
Today, it attributes to this effort its performance in the elections to the government of São Paulo in 2022, in which it was the most voted in the capital, although defeated in the dispute.
The minister put the strategy into practice on Friday (7), when he gave an interview to a radio in Caruaru, in Pernambuco, and compared numbers to those of the government.
Speaking about the minimum wage, he argued that there was no real gain in governments and Bolsonaro. According to him, the Lula administration resumed the policy of appreciation “under protests of the right staff.” “You do not correct seven years of mismanagement in two years,” he argued.
Also according to allies, research commissioned by Planalto points to a recovery of government assessment, which served as a stimulus for the minister.
Removed the risk of PIX taxation, it was gaining form the version that the opposition used a normative instruction to affect the government, according to these surveys.
In conversations, Lula himself would have admitted that there is no antidote to proliferation of false news, proof of this would be the dissemination of fake news about pet taxation after the government announced a national register of domestic animals.
Despite this recovery effort, government ministers recognize severe wear in the reputation of the farm holder, in whom the opposition successfully tries to paste the taxpayer, the RateDD.
It points to the high rejection rate of the Minister of Finance, and his peers recognize that they did little to preserve him-which eventually hit the Lula administration.
Government members recognize that today an electoral project from Haddad for the presidency would be unfeasible, as well as an application to the São Paulo government.
The minister has denied the intention to run in 2026, with a commitment to stay in government during Lula’s campaign to reelection.
To preserve what remains of his political chief, Haddad’s allies even suggest an exchange of ministry, as for the Civil House. But this hypothesis would be remote right now.
In these two years of government, Haddad suffered opposition in the presidency’s cuisine, even having clashes with the head of the Civil House (PT). And under the command of, his party called the economic policy. “
It was Gleisi who pulled the rosary of criticism to Haddad and helped Congress dehydrate the tax measurement package, received with suspicion by the financial market, after the announcement in November, was linked to the increase to $ 5,000 of the tax exemption Combined income with the taxation of millionaires. She is now preparing to occupy a ministerial chair in the Planalto Palace.
The minister’s wear with the package inside and outside the government increased after Haddad, the day after the announcement, during lunch with bankers, to signal additional spending containment measures even before they are approved.
In the market, the reading was that of a minister won by the political team of Lula and who sought support from the bankers to harden the measures in Congress votes.
In the Planalto Palace, the irritation was that it was the minister himself to feed the view that the package was insufficient, while President Lula had given a green signal to measures considered harsh, such as the change in minimum wage policy and in salary allowance.
Auxiliaries of the president report that he did not like what they call the victimization process Haddad does to the financial market in defense of more spending cut, placing the rest of the government as a villain in the debate of tax measures.
They claim that the minister needs to change his teacher and “USP style” and put himself as a winner.
The president’s criticism, calling Haddad a weak minister at an economic event in late January, reverberated in Congress, reinforced the perception that there is a movement of weakening the minister and that by 2026 he will have no easy life in Congress to pass the economic measures.
Haddad has already felt, on Wednesday (5), the difficulty that faces on the first visit to the new mayor, (-PB), to present the agenda of 25 measures of the economic agenda in the 2025-2026 biennium.
The climate was tense, and the reaction was not expected by Haddad. The expectation of using the opportunity in defense of the government was frustrated
The day before, Motta, considered by the minister an important ally of the economic agenda in Congress, had already given an interview by saying that Haddad had been won in the spending cut debate and that the numbers of were worrying.
