This Tuesday, the federal government sent the 2022 Annual Budget Bill (31) to the National Congress, which sets the Union’s budget for next year and estimates the executive’s revenues and expenditures. Beyond the budget, the country has followed important economic debates that directly affect the political scenario, as economic and political analysts point out at CNN Raquel Landim, Thais Arbex and Cayo Junqueira.
As for the budget, there are discussions about preliminary conditions, the possibility of opening the budget for the launch of the new Bolsa Família, and politicians are beginning to realize that there will be no other solution but to postpone the provision of emergency assistance. According to analyst Thais Arbex, these scenarios are closely related, and the next problem is what to do with the 20 million Brazilians who will lose emergency aid in October and reformulating the Bolsa Família will not be enough.
Although analyst Raquel Landim argues that Minister Paulo Gedes and the economics group do not have the necessary political power to support the budget line and that they will not have the political power to support these figures; Cayo Junqueira believes that the budget line is a message that the executive has sent to the judiciary and legislature.
Thus, according to Cayo Junqueira, it is already possible to see how political figures are moving to see how they can get around the issue of preliminary status, open up space and get resources for the electoral policy of 2022.
It is Rodrigo Pacheco (DEM-MG) who is in the dialogue about the budget, and the executive branch deliberately made a fiction to force the two powers to sit down and talk.
The budget is also a political move, adds analyst Thais Arbeks, who echoes the absence of (non-partisan) President Jair Bolsonaro amid discussions over the water crisis, budget and aid. For the moment, Bolsonaro is focused on trying to attract an institutional crisis to get people to rally.
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(Written by Anna Gabriela Costa)
