Doria dips his hand into the pockets of retirees and defends the spending cap.

Governor João Doria released a document opposing the Workers' Party, which intends to repeal the labor reform (which only brought unemployment and loss of rights) and eliminate the public spending cap (Constitutional Amendment 95/2016). 

I ask: what ceiling are you defending, Governor? In the state of São Paulo, your policies are at the floor. Or rather: below the floor. Teachers in the state education system receive starting salaries below the national professional minimum wage and suffer one of the biggest wage squeezes in history. A large part of the school staff receives below the minimum wage! In the health sector, there are also very low salaries. 

What kind of roof is this, Mr. Governor, if you commit an enormous cruelty and a very serious crime by confiscating the salaries of our retirees, who worked for many, many years to have a dignified retirement, but receive meager benefits? Now, many are going through hardship because you, shamelessly, have taken their pensions. 

He even had the nerve to go on television to give an absurd explanation for this confiscation, saying that he is thinking of those who have nothing to eat. You are, in fact, creating more misery by taking away part of the meager pensions of retirees and pensioners in the state of São Paulo. You should be ashamed and cancel this confiscation, which is based on a false declaration of a deficit in SPPREV that neither you nor your Secretary of Finance, Henrique Meirelles, can demonstrate. 

With what moral authority can you speak of "backwardness," defending the measures implemented by Michel Temer's coup government and deepened by Jair Bolsonaro's government, whose election you supported in 2018 with the slogan "BolsoDoria"? It's pointless to try to differentiate yourselves now for electoral reasons. You're all cut from the same cloth and defend the same policies against public services and civil servants, against retirees and pensioners, against youth, against the working class and the poorest population. 

The spending cap you advocate for causes enormous deficits in the budgets for education, health, housing, culture, science and technology, social assistance, and other public policies. It serves to drain money to national and international bankers, the largest recipients of interest payments on the public debt. You, consistent with your backward and elitist thinking, support taking resources away from social areas to make the rich even richer.

I stand with the retirees and pensioners whom you are extorting, and I am fighting obsessively to end the wage confiscation. And we will win. 

The year 2022 has begun, and with it comes renewed hope that we will turn this dark page in the history of our country and the state of São Paulo. Soon, leaders like you and Jair Bolsonaro will be just a shadow of the past.