BRASÍLIA: The Senate approved on Tuesday (12) eight bills adjusting the salaries of several categories of civil servants. To assure the proposals could move directly to sanction, without being examined again by the Lower House, interim President Michel Temer pledged to veto any article that deals with the creation of jobs or bonuses and career transfers. “We cannot afford this kind of expense when the country is facing a crisis,” said the leader of the government in the House, Senator Aloysio Nunes Ferreira (PSDB-SP).
Nunes reiterated that the adjustments were negotiated by President Dilma Rousseff, currently suspended from office, and are within the fiscal target for this year and the next. As the acting President, Temer kept the agreement.
The proposals benefit civil servants from the Lower House, Federal Court of Auditors, Attorney General’s Office, Federal Police, Central Bank, Education, Culture, Agrarian Development and former federal territories, and other 40 careers, such as correctional officers, doctors and technicians of public hospitals and the military. By the end of the vote, the senators could not inform the current impact of the measures on federal coffers. The estimate is around R$ 53 billion (US$ 16 billion) by 2019.
