Guedes said that the risk of committing a crime of fiscal responsibility prevents faster action by the government in actions to face the coronavirus crisis.
Paulo Guedes, in a videoconference with members of the National Front of Mayors, said that due to the current need to increase spending to face the coronavirus, the LRF worries the government due to the risk of committing a crime of responsibility for a possible violation of points of the law. .
This Sunday (29), the Minister of Economy defended the approval by the National Congress of an emergency law. This would allow, for example, to make the Fiscal Responsibility Law (LRF) more flexible in cases of calamity. Like the current pandemic scenario that Brazil is facing, due to COVID-19.
“What is our problem today? It's the LRF, fiscal pedaling, impeachment, that kind of thing. It has to have any clause that, in case of calamity, suspends it and allows us to act quickly. I have several secretaries who say they cannot sign these acts because they say that if they sign they will be arrested and then there is an impeachment action against the president”, he said. “We need an emergency law. We need to work,” he said.
More than one source from the Ministry of Economy said that the movement is already in preparation, to send to Congress, this would be a proposal for an amendment to the constitution (PEC). Which, in turn, would authorize the extension of the government spending limit during the new coronavirus pandemic.
Another defense operated by the minister was that the states and municipalities are also not obliged to comply with the primary result this year.
“Just as it happened with the federal government, the same thing must happen for states and municipalities. Suspend the obligation to comply with the primary result”, he said.
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