Lula wants credit for white home appliances – 07/12/2023 – Market

President Lula (PT) suggested, this Wednesday (12), to the Minister of Industry and vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, opening credit for the purchase of home appliances.

“I even spoke with Alckmin, how about we make a little opening again for the white line. Facilitate the purchase of a refrigerator, television, washing machine. People, from time to time, need to change their domestic utensils”, he said. the president in speech.

“When the old fridge is knocking, it’s not freezing the beer well and it’s wasting a lot of energy. If it’s expensive, let’s make it cheaper, let’s find a way. Simone [Tebet]you and Aloizio [Mercadante] open your hand a little to make life easier for these people who want to have access to things”, he continued.

The statement was given during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace for the delivery of the National Order of Scientific Merit and the resumption of the CCT (National Council of Science and Technology), extinguished by the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

Lula also celebrated the discount program for cars worth up to R$120,000, which ended on July 7. According to the president, it is necessary to encourage consumption by the population, whenever this can be done in a responsible manner.

All R$ 800 million made available for the program that granted discounts to the purchase of “popular” cars were used up. The initiative, which had an initial budget of BRL 500 million, lasted a month in all.

Once again, the president recalled the Desenrola program, a campaign promise for those in debt, and said that the announcement will definitely come out.

Among those awarded at this Wednesday’s event, there are two specialists who had their honor revoked in 2021, at the height of Bolsonarist denialism during the pandemic: sanitary doctor Adele Benzaken and infectologist Marcus Vinícius Guimarães de Lacerda.

At the time, in reaction to the government, a group of 20 scientists with the Order’s decoration collectively renounced their medals.