Government members () and the president’s party want to use the debate on tax collection in the clash with the opposition.
A monitoring by petistas suggested that the theme can offer an engagement rarely obtained from the left in the networks, despite the pressure of Congress and entrepreneurs.
PT leaders have reinforced, in recent days, the assessment that it is possible to dispute an important part of the electorate with the argument that the government seeks social justice by proposing that the richest and powerful companies pay more taxes to support public policies and benefits such as income tax exemption for the poorest.
Petistas say they are aware that the tactic can aggravate the government’s wear and tear with the policy and GDP summit. Lula, at some point, would have been concerned about this setback, but then praised the discourse of collection of the richest for the poor.
The use of this strategy has already been observed in recent days. Important members of the party and government, such as Lula himself, made public statements in this format.
“Haddad’s IOF has nothing much,” said Lula, released on Thursday (19). He defended what he called “tax justice”: those who earn more should pay more tax than those who earn less.
“We are taking the sectors that make a lot of money and who pay very little. Bets pay 12%, we want them to pay 18%. They earn billions, billions, billions and billions. They do not want to pay. Fintechs today are almost some banks. So, these fights we have to do all the time,” said the president.
The minister (institutional relations) also stated on Thursday that the economic measures proposed by the government are necessary to ensure fiscal balance and to combat social inequality.
“They are indispensable to start correcting the huge injustices of a system that exempts the gains in financial investments and charges up to 27.5% tax of a primary teacher.
Lula and the minister (farm) are under pressure for having. The executive needs to increase the collection to comply with tax rules without containing more expenses.
There was . Haddad negotiated a smaller climb on this tax, combined with other proposals to increase the collection – as the end of the exemption of encouraged investments and increased tax for BETS, fintechs and JCP (interest on equity).
Still, the House approved by 346 votes to 97 a request to, in one.
Petistas say they have identified, however, a movement in the networks from last week. On the 11th, Haddad attended a hearing of the House Finance and Tax Commission and was harshly questioned by pockets about government accounts and his tax policy.
There was . The Finance Minister responded firmly and said the opposition made “molecage.”
According to the petistas, a monitoring pointed out that, that day, the ideas defended by the minister had engagement much higher than normal. The most common is the spaces.
Another survey, made at the request of the Sheet By consulting firm Bites, he showed that Haddad’s participation in the committee gave a rare breath on the left on social networks – that was not enough to tie the game with the right -wing forces.
Of the 50 posts with more engagement on tax increases and the clash between Haddad and pockets had 31. The right won, but did not repeat the absolute mastery of this digital environment.
Haddad has won 30,000 new followers on Instagram and Facebook until Tuesday (17), according to Bites. It was its best performance since 2023.
“What happened was Haddad climbing the tone and giving a line of defense of the government. And really people defended the left, which in general does not happen so much. What happens more is a victory, by WO, of the right,” said the technical director of the consultancy, André Eler.
Haddad himself showed courage in the conversations that followed the clash in the commission. According to allies, Lula accompanies the demonstrations of his ministers, supporting the most emphatic defenses of government measures, such as.
Government members have argued that ministers further climb their tone. The President of the Republic himself resents the lack of disposition of his ministers to enter this type of clash.
Some ministers even suggest that Lula make harder statements in this regard, realizing his base to the left. On the other hand, the president has been advised against directly facing the center, given the need to maintain minimal stability in Parliament.
