Haddad says that PT governments have always had good relations with agribusiness, even with Lula’s criticism of the sector.| Photo: Vinícius Loures/Chamber of Deputies

The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, said this Wednesday (17th) that the government hopes to attempt a rapprochement with agribusiness after criticism from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) against businessmen in the sector in recent weeks.

At a hearing in the Chamber of Deputies, Haddad said that he hopes to “lower the temperature” with the sector and that the PT governments have always had a “good relationship” with agribusiness between 2003 and 2016.

“No one has done more for the agro than us. We never had a crisis in the Brazilian countryside in relation to the financing of the Safra Plan, from Pronaf [Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar]”, he said in a record of Politics 360.

A People’s Gazette on Monday (15), the president of the Agricultural Parliamentary Front, deputy Pedro Lupion (PP-PR), said that Lula “contradicts himself” between the official speech before the parliamentarians and what he declares in events he attends. “Unfortunately, it once again shows this government’s contempt for the most important sector of the economy,” he shot.