The darkest side of the coup.
Temer is promoting this downsizing to prioritize allocating money to pay off the public debt instead of addressing the most basic needs of citizens. The goal is to change the Constitution, removing rights and social achievements, to favor the sustainability of the financial market, which already ensures enormous profits annually.
The interim president, a key player in nefarious attacks on the Legislature, Michel Temer (PMDB NationalHe is promoting an offensive to dismantle the public service in the federal and state governments. Leading a provisional government that seized power after an institutional coup, the PMDB member wants to forcibly implement a political project for the coming decades, already rejected in the 2014 elections.
The proposal to renegotiate state debt (PLP 257/16), approved by the Chamber's plenary this week, represents the essence of the ongoing coup in the country. It harms Brazil as a whole. The requirement that the primary spending of the federated units not exceed the previous year, plus the variation in inflation measured by the IPCA, will generate a freeze on investments and workers' salaries, hindering the normal functioning of administrations.
Another facet of the ongoing deep fiscal adjustment is the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC 241/16), which will be analyzed by a special committee, secretly established in a coup-like manner on Thursday night. The new fiscal regime foresees the imposition of primary spending limits for the Union, valid for 20 years, ending the earmarking of revenues for education and health expenditures, as stipulated in the Federal Constitution. In a country where resources are already lacking for these strategic areas of national development, it is absurd to create mechanisms for austerity.
The harmful effects of both proposals fall on the most vulnerable sectors of society, harming workers and users of essential public services.
Temer is promoting this austerity measures to prioritize allocating money to pay off the public debt instead of addressing the most basic needs of citizens. The goal is to change the Constitution, removing rights and social achievements, to favor the sustainability of the financial market, which already ensures enormous profits annually. It is unacceptable that the government should be the mouthpiece of rentiers. We must reinforce this denunciation and fight against the greatest coup and injustice of all: the one that assaults the worker.
*Federal deputy for Bahia and leader of the PCdoB in the Chamber of Deputies.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.