PPA Participativo caravan closes plenary sessions in São Paulo

This Friday (14th), the capital of São Paulo hosted the last plenary session for the participatory elaboration of the Pluriannual Plan (PPA), after having visited all the states and the Federal District. The meetings began in May and are organized by the federal government to incorporate the priorities indicated by civil society in the 2024-2027 PPA. The ten representatives of civil society and social movements presented their proposals to the authorities. The PPA will define the country’s priorities for the next four years.

Proposals are registered in the Participatory Brazil Platform, where they are available for citizens to consult and vote on the one they consider most important. You can also see the list of most voted proposals.

The PPA plenary sessions brought together more than 30,000 people and the Brasil Participativo Platform already has more than 974,000 subscribers, more than 1 million votes and received 6,400 proposals from the population. Who wants to vote until the 16th, at 22h.

At the end of the vote, the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic systematizes the contributions of the population and sends them to the National Planning Secretariat of the Ministry of Planning and Budget (MPO), which adjusts the proposals to be analyzed by the technical teams of the ministries and added to the PPA. The plan must be delivered to Congress by August 31, along with the Annual Budget Law (LOA).

One of those responsible for the PPA, Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, Márcio Macêdo, explained that by accessing the PPA platform, each citizen can prioritize three programs that they consider important for Brazil and for the city and state in which they live. Everyone can vote.

“The piece that we are going to deliver to the National Congress on August 31 will not only be the planning of President Lula’s government, but also of the Brazilian people, who will have their fingerprints placed on this piece of planning”, he said.

According to the Minister of Planning and Budget, Simone Tebet, the country emerged from the covid-19 pandemic with a large social deficit, with all fundamental public policies paralyzed. According to her, the PPA is an instrument that makes the Brazilian people have a voice again, “a compass of the Budget that the government must present on August 31st”.

“That’s what the PPA means, it’s the basis of everything, it’s planning done by the hands of the Brazilian people with a very simple but fundamental question: what kind of Brazil do we all want for the next four years? And this question is not asked inside the cabinets, it is asked and was asked throughout the 27 states, including the Federal District”, stated Tebet.

She reinforced that the Budget that will be presented will be the result of everything that was heard and voted during the plenary sessions, and who will give the final word on the subject is the National Congress. “What parliamentarians can and should do are natural rearrangements within actions and values”.

The Vice-President of the Republic and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, stressed that governing is choosing and that money is never enough for everything, “so it is very important to discuss the budget, what will meet our population”.

“We are going to work with great care for the benefit of our population,” he said.

Ministers Ana Moser (Sports) and Sônia Guajajara (Indigenous Peoples) and ministers Paulo Teixeira (Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture), Silvio Almeida (Human Rights and Citizenship in Brazil), Alexandre Padilha (Institutional Relations) Luiz Marinho (Work and Employment) and Márcio França (Ports and Airports).

White line

Questioned about the possibility of a price reduction policy for white line products, minister Simone Tebet said that she has not yet spoken with President Lula on the subject, and that the assessment is first passed by the Ministries of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services and Finance, followed by Planning, which analyzes the impact and effects on the population and whether there is fiscal space.

“I understand that we would need two things. One depends on us and is happening, which is the unrolls. People are already in debt and launching a program with indebtedness means a program that can be crippled, because the people who need it most will not be able to change their appliances. The second point is the issue of sustainability and the efficiency of the product to save money, ”she explained.

Tebet also recalled that even with an efficient program in all respects, it is impossible to offer good options with interest rates of 13.75% per annum. According to her, incentive programs like this are made from time to time, within a specific reality. “We can’t do Desenrolla every year. We spend every year covering these people because we are not managing to lower interest rates, which is the true cause of Brazilian families’ indebtedness, there is no reason. The decision is technical and based on politics and the reality of the Brazilian economy,” she said.