Lula wants to resume the policy of increasing GDP

Presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Labour) said Thursday night (8) that if elected, he will resume the policy of real adjustment of the minimum wage above inflation. The commitment was made during a political campaign in Nova Iguaçu (RJ), in Baixada Fluminense, together with allies competing in state elections.

“Wait and get ready, because the minimum wage will go up every year starting in January as our economy grows, because there are 29 million retirees, all of them earning minimum wage and about 59 million people making up to one minimum wage,” the candidate said.

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The candidate also spoke about the fight against hunger in the country, saying that the population has stopped eating meat, even though Brazil is the largest producer of animal protein in the world. “Brazil is the largest meat producer in the world, however, people can no longer buy a single kilogram of meat to eat. They took advantage of the speech to criticize Bolsonaro over his management of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Lula, in his speech, also promised to return important programs from the Labor era, such as the Minha Casa Minha Vida, to housing, as well as to increase funding for education, especially the universities and technical schools built under his government. “We want new clothes and good food for our children. Our family is respected. We want to live well and live well,” the candidate wrote on his official Twitter page.

The candidate also highlighted that he wanted to invest in the grassroots pharmacy program, to ensure free access to essential medicines for the population.

Still on the social network, the candidate said he wanted to invest in Baixada Fluminense and that he wanted Rio de Janeiro to appear in newspapers for quality education, food and employment and not in police pages, with children killed by stray bullets. He wrote: “Our country must be humane and fraternal.”

Lula also took the opportunity to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, who passed away today at the age of 96. In our government [de 2003 a 2010]the United Kingdom and Brazil had excellent diplomatic, political and commercial relations, marked by the state visit they welcomed us in in 2006. I remember our meeting at the G-20 meeting in London in 2009. My condolences to the family and to everyone who admired Queen Elizabeth II in the UK and around the world.

“Lola stayed in Rio de Janeiro on Friday (9). He participates, from ten in the morning, in a meeting with evangelists, in the city of São Gonçalo (RJ), in the metropolitan region of Rio.