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Lula and Dilma discuss the effects of fiscal adjustment.

Former President Lula reported this Friday (22) to President Dilma Rousseff and ministers of the political core that he has been receiving at his institute businessmen who are insecure about the effects of the fiscal adjustment and the strategy to resume growth; they defined that it is necessary to refine the discourse of the adjustment and publicize the version that, even with the budget cuts, the government has more robust investments than those of the pre-PT governments.

Former President Lula reported this Friday (22) to President Dilma Rousseff and ministers of the political core that he has been receiving at his institute businessmen who are insecure about the effects of the fiscal adjustment and the strategy to resume growth; they defined that it is necessary to refine the discourse of the adjustment and publicize the version that, even with the budget cuts, the government has more robust investments than those of the pre-PT governments (Photo: Valter Lima)

247 - Former President Lula reported this Friday (22) to President Dilma Rousseff and ministers of the political core that he has been receiving at his institute businessmen who are insecure about the effects of fiscal adjustment and the strategy to resume growth. Representatives of the GDP told the former president that, in addition, political instability generates doubt about the approval in Congress of measures with an impact on the economy and that there is even uncertainty about the president's willingness to sanction or veto points of these projects. The information is from the Painel column, of Folha.

At the meeting, Lula and Dilma agreed that it is necessary to refine the discourse on austerity and promote the idea that, even with budget cuts, the government has more robust investments than pre-PT governments. At the meeting, Lula again warned that the government runs a great risk of jeopardizing its relationship with the labor unions by opposing the amendment that relaxes retirement benefits, approved in the Chamber of Deputies.