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Lula's team will seek constitutional waiver for extra spending in 2023
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By Marcela Ayres
BRASILIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's transition team will negotiate with congressional leaders to approve a constitutional amendment before the end of the year to create room in the 2023 budget for pin up his campaign promises, Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin said on Thursday.
The measure would waive a spending ceiling to allow for the extension of the monthly payments of 600 reais under the Auxilio Brasil welfare program and an increase of the minimum wage.
Alckmin, who Lula picked to lead his transition team, said the waiver would also "prevent interruption of services and construction works" that are ongoing.
In Sunday's presidential runoff, Lula defeated far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, who authorized his chief of staff Ciro Nogueira to start the transition process.
The new president takes office Jan. 1.
After meeting on Thursday with Senator Marcelo Castro, who is responsible for the 2023 budget bill in the upper house of Congress, Alckmin said the idea is to approve the constitutional amendment by Dec.
15.
"We've arranged to meet again next Tuesday to be able to detail what is needed," Alckmin told journalists after the meeting, adding that a meeting with Lula on Monday will determine the size of the requested waiver.
The 2023 budget bill sent to Congress by Bolsonaro reduces cash handouts to low-income families to 400 reais next year, though he had promised to extend the 600 reais payments during the election campaign. The program, originally called Bolsa Familia, was launched during Lula's first presidential term and was later renamed by Bolsonaro.
To guarantee an increased budget for the program at the beginning of 2023, it will be necessary to bypass the constitutionally-mandated spending cap, which limits the growth of public expenditures to the previous year's rate of inflation, and this would have to be done before Lula takes office in January.
According to Lula's close aide and former Finance Minister Guido Mantega, Lula will negotiate an increase in 2023 government spending that could exceed the spending cap by 200 billion reais ($39 billion).
(Reporting by Marcela Ayres; Editing by Aurora Ellis)
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