Leader of one of the president’s base parties, the deputy (PDT-MG) states that the government needs to learn to lose and let it escape an opportunity to improve Congress to try (tax on financial operations).
“The government is tensioning when it needed to give a distemant. It has to learn to lose. It has lost, does not appeal, no. It changes the album. Because it will only worsen the relationships with Congress and will not stop, there will be retaliation here, retaliation there. This is very bad,” he says.
He also disputes the argument used by the AGU (Attorney General of the Union) that the overthrow of the decrees that raised the IOF on the president’s prerogatives. “The government has the prerogative of editing the decree? Has. Congress has the prerogative of making a legislative decree project nullifying the decree?
PSB deputy, who also integrates Lula’s base in the House, Duarte Jr. (MA) also criticizes the government’s decision to appeal to the Supreme Court. “While the population faces high interest rates and record indebtedness, the government insists on judicializing what Congress sovereign and majority has decided: relieve the consumer’s pocket,” he says.
“As a lawyer, I always prioritize the dialogue. Taking the judiciary must be the last alternative, not the first,” he adds. “When there is still room to talk, you have to insist. Judicializing can represent a path without return – with costs, wear and decisions that beyond the control of the parties. The best agreement is that built with dialogue, truth, respect and common sense.”
Under reserve, a PSD deputy also assessed that government action has the potential to irreversibly climb the tension between powers and impair the country’s progress.
Added, PDT, PSB and PSD have six ministries in the Lula administration.
Nevertheless, members of the base came in defense of petista management and evaluated the decision right. For Senator Eliziane Gama (PSD-MA), the government, when triggering the Supreme Court, tries to restore its competence to edit acts related to tax policy.
“There is no surprise in this regard. In our assessment, there was no exorbitance of the federal government in editing the decrees of IOF. It is very important that there is the granting of this request made through AGU because it restores a measure that means fairer taxation for the country,” he says.
Deputy Aliel Machado (PV-PR) goes in the same line and stated that the main discussion deals with the government’s competence to edit decrees. “It is a matter of legality. Because if you open a margin for all actions that are the responsibility of the government to be sustained by a PDL, this removes autonomy and governability, which is very serious.”
PSOL leader, Talíria Petrone (RJ) says that the increase in IOF seeks to ensure “that the rich pay the account” of reducing inequality in Brazil.
“It is the affirmation of the constitutionality of a government decree, which could not be overthrown by supposed unconstitutionality. The National Congress must have sufficient maturity to understand that it is the government defending what its competence is to do,” he says.
Before the AGU, his party filed a action on the Supreme Court for the same goal. “Having the two further strengthens the initiative to reverse this unconstitutional decision of Congress,” says Guilherme Boulos (PSOL-SP).
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