Samuel Pessôa talks about the challenges of the economy under Lula – 01/20/2023 – Tv Folha

This Monday (23), TV Folha receives columnist Samuel Pessôa, a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV) and the Julius Baer Family Office.

The economist will talk to the special reporter of Sheet Fernando Canzian on the paths that the Treasury portfolio of the Lula government could follow.

The transmission, at 6 pm, will be exclusive to newspaper subscribers, and the link will be available in this text at the time of the event.

For Pessôa, as he wrote in a recent column, the Lula government started off on the wrong foot, prioritizing increased spending. However, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, still has the chance to opt for a path that, according to the economist, will result in a positive scenario.

For this, Haddad must execute less than the space given by the Transition PEC, establish a fiscal rule that signals a fall in public debt and approve some increase in the tax burden.

All of this will depend on President Lula’s leadership capacity in negotiating measures that raise taxes and reduce spending and subsidies, “in a way that signals the solvency of the National Treasury”, he writes.