Pre-candidate for the Presidency for the , the former minister claims to maintain historical positions from his communist days, such as support for State intervention in the economy, but recognizes that this has changed and today also values the action of the market and entrepreneurship.
In recent years, the former president of the Chamber of Deputies
The party that Aldo intends to support has in its economic plan support for free enterprise, “strengthening private enterprise, stimulating national enterprise and limiting State action to the fields of its natural activity.”
During his career as a federal deputy for six terms, he presented projects that go against this line. In April 1994, for example, a text was filed that prohibited the adoption, by public bodies, of labor-saving technological innovations — the proposal was shelved.
A month later, he presented a project that prohibited the installation of self-service pumps at gas stations, which was also archived. A new attempt, in 1998, was successful and, two years later, the proposal became law. In 2000, it wanted to ban the use of electronic turnstiles on buses, to avoid dismissal of conductors, but the initiative was not successful.
Aldo was also the author of the law that established the year 1995 as the “Year”, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the quilombola leader’s death. And he tried to turn October 31st, when Halloween is celebrated, into — it didn’t work and the 2003 project was shelved.
He says to the Panel that he is in favor of State intervention. “I’m in favor of preserving the jobs of gas station attendants. What are you going to make the gas station attendant do? He can’t be a journalist for Sheet. You won’t become a computer programmer. So you have to be a gas station attendant.”
Regarding the defense of the Portuguese language, he says he maintains the same opinion. “We will continue defending, and Brazilian folklore doesn’t change anything.”
At the same time, the former minister states that Brazil needs to value market action. “We need to value entrepreneurs, treat them with more respect, because it is through the actions of investors and entrepreneurs that Brazil can expand economic activity, people who will employ people, who will pay taxes, who will earn currency for the country”, he says.
“I think this is the main change in my understanding. I looked more at the State as an agent. I think the State has an important role, but the State itself will need a dynamic market, a very strong private entrepreneurship to generate the wealth and the taxes that the State needs to fulfill its role”, he adds.
Aldo also says he sees no contradiction between his vision and that of the party.
“Christian Democracy emerged based on the church’s social doctrine, on papal encyclicals that opposed savage capitalism”, he argues. “That’s what you learned in law school, the church’s social doctrine, based on these encyclicals. There is no contradiction. Christian Democracy has always been a party focused on social justice, social balance.”
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