Haddad says that if the exemption is maintained there could be a new pension reform

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247 – The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, defended the legal action proposed by the government to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to suspend sections of the law that extended the payroll exemption for sectors of the economy and municipalities. The government’s action caused friction with the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.

“The pension reform has a clause that has to be considered because, otherwise, in three or five years you will have to carry out another pension reform, if there is no income. So we have to be very responsible with this”, said the minister in an interview with the press, this Monday (29).

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Haddad also said that the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) faces difficulties with regard to communication and combating fake news and that the government seeks to find a “democratic way out” to curb the spread of misinformation and racist speeches. hate on social media.

“We want a democratic way out of the problem. We don’t want an authoritarian way out. There are countries that adopt authoritarian solutions. Prohibit [o funcionamento das plataformas] and it’s over. We want to protect the individual from an avalanche of misinformation that offends his reputation and against which he has no protection,” Haddad told Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.

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“I agree with the critics who say that we are still very analogue on social media. The fight against fake news is still a problem for us. I sometimes receive reports of [publicações em] networks. The degree of misinformation is very large”, observed Haddad.