Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro Pledges Fiscal Adjustment, Rejects Cuts to Social Spending
- Flavio Bolsonaro said that, if elected president, he would pursue a 200 billion-real fiscal adjustment to curb Brazil’s rising public debt.
- He rejected reports that his campaign would stop minimum-wage increases, end automatic social-benefit adjustments, or reduce mandatory social spending.
- He said the adjustment would come from eliminating ministries, addressing mismanagement at state-controlled companies, and monetizing federal real-estate assets.
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Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro pledges fiscal adjustment, rejects ...
Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro pledges fiscal adjustment, rejects cuts to social spending
SAO PAULO, Oct 16 - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Friday that, if elected president, he would seek to curb Brazil's rising public debt without touching politically sensitive social spending commitments, rejecting media reports that his campaign was considering such measures. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Bolsonaro denies he will cut social assistance Brazilian media have reported that he is considering cuts in social spending. In an interview with the TV Globo program Jornal Nacional, he denies this. – Many false media reports have circulated, and this is an important time for me to put things in place, says the senator, who is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Read also: In the interview, he says that spending equivalent to 200 billi…
The candidate for President Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) was interviewed on Friday (16) by TV Globo
In an interview on Friday (16), Senator explained a change of position on the proposal and stated that he will respect the decision of Congress if he arrives at the Presidency The post Flavio promises not to reverse the end of the 6×1 scale: ‘Follow the will of the majority of the workers' appeared first in ND More
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