Divergence over occupation forces and social security reveals dispute in Bolsonaro government

(IOF) and the pension reform proposal revealed an internal conflict within the team of President Jair Bolsonaro during the first week of his administration. Onyx Lorenzoni, head of the civil household, and Paulo Guedes, Minister of Economy, on the other hand. The idea of ​​increasing the IOF to compensate for the loss of income with the extension of incentives to the northern and northeastern regions – announced yesterday by Bolsonaro and abandoned a few hours later the special secretary of The Internal Revenue Service, Marcos Cintra, even stood up for a few hours. The O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper learned that the political core of the government had won the fall of the arm with Guedes and had managed to overthrow the measure, considered unpopular.

In the palace of Plbadto, there are those who attribute the information leak IOF increase to the Chief Minister of the Presidency General Secretariat, Gustavo Bebianno, who would do a kind of "double "with Guedes. Behind the scenes, Onyx and Bebianno vie for the leading role in the political joints

It is not today that the head of the Civil House is strangely alien to the holder of the economy. In recent days, Onyx was very upset to learn that Guedes had persuaded the Bolsonaro PSL to support the mayoral re-election bid, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ)

In the diagnosis of the minister of the Economy, the recovery of Maia It is fundamental for the government to have more peace in Congress and to approve, for example, the reform of social security. Bebianno has the same badessment of Guedes and even thinks that some changes in the rules of retirement could have gone through Congress if Maia's announcement had been announced before.

Resistance

Despite his DEM status, Onyx resisted support for Maia. He was even more irritated to know that the approach between the PSL and the mayor had been made by Guedes. MPs elected by the PSL then announced that they had opted for this agreement, otherwise the Bolsonaro party would be isolated, without seat in the strategic committees of the House, such as Constitution and Justice and Finance and budget.

Onyx only convinced even after members of the new parliamentary staff of the Civil House – made up of non-reelected deputies – declared that if Maia was "ignored" by the PSL, this would pose many problems for the votes of the MPs. Plbadto interest

was the protagonist of the information considered disjointed on the pension reform project. The shuttle is displeasing to the technical team preparing the text because, in the badessment of these advisers, uncertainties surround the strategy of the proposal that will be presented after the return of the new Congress in February.

At the first ministerial meeting of the new government the day before yesterday, Guedes proposed tougher pension reform, with a higher minimum age for retirement. Bolsonaro disagreed and asked the ministers to always present two lines of action: the president defends a minimum age of 57 for women and 62 for men.

Maia thinks Guedes is right. The mayor said yesterday that the reduction of the minimum age compared to the proposal of the government of Michel Temer "kills" the rule of transition. Temer proposed to men to retire at age 65 and to women, 62.

The interview given by Bolsonaro to SBT, commenting on points not yet defined in the proposal, also worried the market, who saw the risk of seeing the reform end sweet The information comes from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.