After the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) disclose that the Brazilian economy grew 0.1% in 2014, government base of parliamentarians and opposition reacted to the result. The opposition criticized the current model of economic management of the government and pointed out that “mistakes” of the plateau before the global financial crisis since 2008 are causes of “low” growth. Have the governing coalition argues that result reflects the “current situation” and speaks of renewed growth.
In addition to growth of 0.1%, IBGE reported that the sum of the wealth produced in the last year reached R $ 5.52 trillion at current prices (in dollars), and GDP per capita (per person) fell to R $ 27,229. This is the worst result since 2009, the year of the international crisis, when the economy fell by 0.2%. In 2013, according to revised data, the economy had grown 2.7%.
To Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), the prospects for this and the next three years are “worse” the first term of President Dilma. In a statement, he said that if analysts’ expectations are confirmed, the country will have four more years of “stagnation of income.”
“Or the PT government fixes quickly the situation he created or we another cycle of low growth, high inflation, high interest rates, external imbalance and also the risk of further increase in tax burden. The worst is that now the only bastion of positive news, the low rate of unemployment and the formalization, will also worse, “the senator said.
The government leader in the House, Mr José Guimarães (EC) told G1 that the opposition must be “very upset” with the forecast “catastrophic” that Brazil would have economic downturn in 2014.
For him, the country does not live an “economic crisis” as, according to him, the opposition parties preach. The leader of the government, however, defended the need for adjustment in government accounts to prevent the decline of the economy in 2015.
“The opposition was saying to the four corners that we would have had economic downturn in 2014. He must be a lot of upset with this catastrophic prediction because, in complete speculation scenario, GDP in 2014 not to have negative growth and still give this breath, I think it’s a sign that the economy shows clear signs of high growth potential in the second half, “said Guimarães.
” These data are positive signs that the fit is essential. There is no crisis, there is an insurmountable economic difficulties. We need to make adjustments, adjustments to growth does not refract, “concluded Rep.
G1 , the leader of the DEM in the House, Mr Mendonça Filho (PE), recognized the “effort” of the minister, Joaquim Levy, to work for 2015 and 2016 are best years for the economy. But he stressed that those who pay the “account” growth “low” is the population.
“Brazil was thrown into stagnation. This means that the picture shows a downward scenario GDP point of view and the trend is that this year will be negative growth. So Brazil is in recession and this is the result of the incompetence of the current government, “he said.
Deputy leader of the PT in the House, Rep Afonso Florence (BA) told the G1 that the result of the country’s economy in 2014 is “in the imagined universe given the current scenario of international crisis.” For the parliamentary Bahia, the fact that the country go through a period of “fiscal adjustment” brings impact in the economic scenario.
“There is a deterioration of picture. It’s not what we wanted but it is within the universe we can manage and preserve the expectation that there needs to be fit. some room for negotiation in the provisional measures to pass in Congress and our expectation is that we will be able to resume our economic activity is possible. I think that this result is part of the scenery general, “said Florence.
In the evaluation of the PPS leader in the House, Rubens Bueno (PR), the government has made” Mexias so serious “under the macroeconomic point of view that Brazil was taken to current economic scenario due to the “lack of good decisions” Executive.
“It is a given that we all already understand that it is no longer the harbinger, is the announcement that has been designed throughout the Last year, with economic indicators worsening. And is the announcement of what had already been announced in the past and we think will be 2015 and 2016, he said.
Mr Paulo Teixeira (PT-SP) said the result of GDP 2014 shows that the country is “out of the worst of the crisis.”
For the MP, the situation is still not ideal but the setting is “getting better.” He also argued that Congress approve the adjustment measures proposed by the government.
In a statement, the leader of the DEM in the Senate, Ronaldo Caiado (GO), said Brazil “pulls the world’s GDP down “. In its assessment, the government turned the country into “hand brake of the global economy.” For parliamentary, Brazil will face situation “worse” this year.
The PSD leader in the House, Roger Rosso (DF), told the story that President Dilma Rousseff made a “great goal” to choose the economic team’s second term and said he believed the Ministers of Finance, Joaquim Levy, and Planning, Nelson Barbosa, will be able to take the necessary steps to resume economic growth.
“I think Levy, Nelson Barbosa and Tombini [president of the Central Bank] are doing a great job and have already placed the short-term remedy, which are the settings. I think President Dilma made a great goal when he chose the economic team, “he told G1.
The parliamentary argued that Dilma give” full autonomy “to ministers to act to rebalance public accounts and stimulate economic. “Autonomy is important. It is necessary to flight range. I think there is an urgent need for government to have a fit and launch packages of stimulating industrial production and competitiveness. “
Although integrate the governing coalition, the leader of PDT in the House, Andrew Figueiredo (EC ), said he was “skeptical” that the Dilma government will reverse this year of low economic growth perspective.
“I think that the economic team, with the leadership of Joaquim Levy, tends to worsen, and the situation. What I see is interest being high and even higher inflation forecast. The productive capacity of Brazil is being committed to this Selic rate. The winner is the speculative capital. “
The parliamentary also criticized measures taken in the first Rousseff’s mandate, as retention of fuel prices and electricity, which he contributed to the economic results of the year past.
“We criticize some measures, such as holding increases that should have been made over the last four years, particularly oil and energy. Structuring investments were not made. We have a certainty that Brazil needs to go back to investing, we can not be alone contingenciando “he said.
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