Lula outlines the proposal for a social assistance program in Brazil

The President-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will outline here today the Proposal for Constitutional Amendment (PEC) of the Bolsa Família, a social assistance program that he intends to strengthen starting in 2023.

In the budget submission sent by the government of defeated far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro to the legislature for 2023, Auxilio Brasil’s plan (which replaced Bolsa Familia) will have an average value of 405 reais ($76) for recipients.

However, Lula intends to release 600 reais ($112) to those of their favour, with more than 150 ($28) for each child up to the age of six.

The next administration’s strategy is to approve the Bolsa Família PEC and increase the public spending cap to 19% of GDP. The concept is that it is possible to increase consumption once the Bolsonaro government projects it to reach 17.6 percent of GDP.

Allies of the former Labor leader plan to introduce the text in the Senate this Tuesday. For the official start of the analysis, it is necessary that the content be signed by at least 27 members of Congress (one-third of the total).

The bill must be voted on before December 16 to enter the 2023 budget.

The schedule is busy in December

The head of the Workers’ Party (PT), Jesse Hoffman, confirmed that the elected president returned to Brasília because he “also wants to participate in various meetings with the parties and the seats; he wants to speak again with the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (deputies), Arthur Lira, and the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco » .

He announced that the former unionist would be in the Federal District “from Monday to Friday to have these talks and lead the Election Commission, which is very important.”

PT sources confirmed that the former mechanical turning, in the same way, will continue to work the transmission of the government.

Likewise, it intends to reorganize the political formulation of the transition process, determine the ministerial composition of its government and complete the change teams.

The elected president has been absent from the federal capital for the past two weeks. First, participation in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 27) held in Egypt.

He is then recovering in São Paulo from surgery for a larynx injury.

Bolsonaro, who was seeking re-election, was defeated by Lula in the second round of balloting on October 30 and will take power on January 1. (Latin press)