Minister says he is not afraid of losing his job after the vote.
"There is no threat. The PDT is doing very well. The caucus took the position it understood to be the most correct, and it has the autonomy to do so," commented Manoel Dias this Friday, the 8th, during an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Rio de Janeiro; the government's base has been pressuring for the PDT, the party of the Minister of Labor, to be punished after the entire Chamber caucus voted unanimously against MP 665, which is part of the fiscal adjustment.
247 - The Minister of Labor, Manoel Dias (PDT), said that he will not resign because his party voted against the fiscal adjustment in the Chamber of Deputies. "There is no threat (of resigning). The PDT is doing very well. The party took the position it considered most correct, and it has the autonomy to do so," he said. During the vote on Provisional Measure 665, which tightened the rules for unemployment insurance, the 19 federal deputies from the PDT voted against the government's proposal.
He also said that there is no embarrassment in continuing to lead the position. "There is no embarrassment. When we agreed to join Lula's government, the party raised these issues, that we would participate in a pluralistic government and that the PDT has its fundamental principles, and that it would not renounce them. And President Lula understood that it was a party position," he noted.