Following Lula's speech, PMDB withdraws support for the adjustment.
Leonardo Picciani, the PMDB leader in the Chamber of Deputies, said that the party has decided to withdraw its full support for Provisional Measure 665, which changes the rules for unemployment insurance and the salary bonus: "We will follow the guidance of former President Lula: we will fight against the removal of workers' rights," he said, referring to former President Lula's statements on the PT's program; he demanded that the PT align itself with the Planalto Palace.
247 – After the airing of the PT's advertisement, the PMDB leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Leonardo Picciani, decided to withdraw his party's full support for the government's fiscal adjustment. In the advertisement, former President Lula criticized the outsourcing bill, which was approved in the Chamber.
"We will follow the guidance of former President Lula: we will fight against the erosion of workers' rights. Contrary to what is being claimed, Bill 4.330 on outsourcing does not take away workers' rights. As for Provisional Measure 665, I won't say it eliminates workers' rights, but it does make workers' earnings more flexible," Picciani stated.
He demanded alignment between the PT (Workers' Party) and the Planalto (Presidential Palace): “We need to understand what the government wants and what the president's party wants. Whether they want to appear one way on television and then, in the words of Minister Levy and the president herself, ask us for another (stance). Or whether the country is indeed going through a difficult time and, to overcome it and return to development, a bitter remedy is needed,” he said.