The government fears that the new crisis will delay the approval of a proposal on the fiscal rule – 04/20/2020

It’s not that Planalto and its leaders are starting to advocate for a CPI coup. The point is that thanks to Lula’s miscalculation, the government has been dragged into the epicenter of a parliamentary investigation that its allies can no longer avoid. Lola now lives with what’s to come syndrome. The president and his staff fear that the novelty will destabilize the situation to the point of delaying approval of the proposal on the new fiscal rule.

Figures like Rep. Gleesee Hoffman, chairman of the Labor Party, and Senator Randolph Rodriguez, leader of the government in Congress, quickly migrated from position of defender to center of attack. Randolph, the spearhead of the Covid CPI, was marching through the legislature as an ex-Randolph. Suddenly, he’s back in his old hustle to demand the opening of the CPI he helped stop. It is as if Randolph claimed the right to recognize himself in the mirror image.

The new crisis hit the headlines a day after the government sent Congress, with a delay, its fiscal rule proposal. The mayor, Arthur Lyra, had promised swift approval, by May 10. Now, Planalto estimates that date has expired. It is easy to see that the confusion created by the new CPMI will hurt the voting schedule. The fear is that delays in evaluating a project that deals with the Public Accounts Management model will also delay voting on projects that are on hold. Among them is tax reform.

It wasn’t because there was no warning. More than three months ago, when he tried to convince Lula to overturn the CPI’s fixation of the coup d’état in the Senate, controlled by government supporters, ally Renan Caleros predicted: in matters of CPI, “He who does not do so wins”. Today, Lula’s aversion to legislative investigation seems like a target against. You will have to deal with a CPI that has been diverted into a competitors arena. Under federal police investigations, Bolsonaro and Bolsonarianism have been given a stage to distill lies and grudges into Congress.