We would like it to go on forever, says Guedes about sub-ceiling for precatório

After the approval of the Precatório PEC in two rounds in the Senate, the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, reinforced that the measure, which limits the payment of court sentences and opens fiscal space in the Budgets for the next five years, is satisfactory from the point of view of feasibility and predictability of public spending.

Even so, he admitted that the approved text, which will still go through the Chamber of Deputies Plenary, is different from what the economic team proposed.

“The final approved version is not our original version, but it is satisfactory. We now know that expenses with court orders will also rise, obeying the ceiling. This gives us predictability for at least the next four or five years. We would like it to go on forever, but they only approved it until 2026”, he commented this Friday (3) while participating in the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Industry (ENAIQ).

Guedes highlighted that the intention, with a subtext for the federal government’s account with precatoria to be maintained for a few years beyond 2022, is so that the solution is not just for the current government, but “thinking about future generations”.

Once again, the minister justified himself in relation to the change in the rule for the annual correction of the spending ceiling, included in the text later on. “This PEC prevents default. What happens with this accelerated pace of growth in court orders is that, very quickly, inflation would rise and would put at risk, yes, the receipt of court orders and default,” he explained.

Reference: CNN Brasil

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