President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva highlighted in a end of the year interview that the population will reap the results of the restructuring and relaunch of programs and policies that were resumed and implemented since the beginning of his administration.
“Everything we planned to do, up until now, has been accomplished. Everything. We created the New PAC and launched all the programs that needed to be launched. I have been telling my ministers: we have already planted. Now, in 2025, it is the harvest year. We will begin to reap what we have sown. It is an honorable commitment of mine”, assured President Lula, who highlighted the country’s good economic growth indicators and historic employment rates.
The highlights of Lula interview:
• TAX REFORM — We don’t want to implement a reform to increase taxes. We believe that if Brazil collects the taxes already established by law correctly, Brazil will have enough revenue to take care of things. There is no need to increase taxes. Now, this proposal approved by the Federal Senate will return to the Chamber of Deputies, which had already been approved in the Chamber.
• FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY — The fiscal package was sent to the National Congress, which has the authority to change things. No one in this country, no one, I will repeat: no one in this country has more fiscal responsibility than I do. This is not the first time I have been president of the Republic. I have already governed this country and handed over the country with growth of 7.5%. I handed over this country with the highest wage bill. I handed over this country in a very privileged situation. That is what I want to do again. And it is not the market that has to be concerned about government spending, it is the government. Because if I do not control spending, if I spend more than I have, who will pay? The poor people.
• INTEREST RATES — The only thing wrong with this country is that the interest rate is above 12%. There is no explanation. Inflation is just over four, it is a totally controlled inflation.
• MERCOSUR AND THE EUROPEAN UNION — The concrete fact is that I went to Uruguay, I participated in the Mercosur meeting, we made the agreement with the European Union (EU), which was an extremely important agreement. It is not an agreement that will work in the short term, it will take time, because there are 720 million inhabitants involved in the agreement and a GDP of 22 trillion. Therefore, the potential is very great, we just need to be patient.
Source: Gov.Br