After the meeting, Lira and Haddad granted an interview.| Photo: Playback/YouTube/TV Brasil Gov.

The mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), said this Tuesday (18) that he hopes to vote on the project for the new fiscal framework by May 10. This afternoon, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and Finance Minister Fernando Haddad delivered the proposed new fiscal rule to Lira and Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG).

After the meeting, Lira and Haddad talked about the project. “We have a commitment and a very big challenge to discuss a tax reform in the first semester and it is important that we have the framework with all its conditions discussed and voted on before the Tax reform. Therefore, we have a deadline. If we can meet it the deadline of until May 10 in the Chamber, I think it serves well, it gives a calm debate”, said the deputy.

According to Lira, the rapporteur for the proposal in the House should be announced this Wednesday afternoon (19). The President of the House said he hoped to approve the text with at least 308 votes, the minimum number of votes for approval is 257.

During the press conference, Haddad thanked Lira and Pacheco for their performance. “We have, in addition to the rule itself, a set of measures to guarantee fiscal balance for next year and then the Tax reform that will guarantee the long-term sustainability of the Brazilian state’s fiscal base”, emphasized the minister.

About the 13 exceptions presented in the text, Haddad stated that the items “are not in the text, they are in the Constitution”. “The only thing we did was reproduce in the text what is already in the Constitution and cannot be changed by complementary law or by ordinary law. There are the exceptionalities that appear in the constitutional text”, he added.