Temer Wants to Expose "Damned Inheritance" of Rousseff Administration

05/19/2016 - 09h57

In an attempt to draw a counterpoint to Dilma Rousseff's administration (PT), the interim president, Michel Temer (PMDB), intends to make a public clarification to reveal what his team calls the "inventory of problems" inherited from the previous administration.

The idea is to present the real scale of the country's fiscal gap, a picture of the economic difficulties in different ministries and secretariats and list expenses and unapproved disbursements made when the lights went out on the Workers' Party government.

By revealing what the interim president's allies call the "damned inheritance", the new administration plans to create a type of public vaccine to address everything from criticism from the previous leadership which says that there will be setbacks in Workers' Party electoral windows to the eventual demands on the interim administration for a speedy economic recovery.

The term "damned inheritance" is the same one used by the Workers' Party to refer to the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration (PSDB).

The format of the discourse has yet to be defined. It could be an official declaration, an interview or a statement release, but the objective is to criticize the so-called "fiscal traps" left behind by the previous administration.

The most serious issue is that the gap in public accounts left behind by Rousseff is much greater than what was initially anticipated. The Rousseff administration predicted a deficit of R$ 96.7 billion (US$ 27 billion) in 2016, but Temer's administration's estimate places it at R$ 150 billion (US$ 42 billion).

Rousseff's advisors said "the deconstruction of social policies, the stepping over the law and the democratic state of the law, and the lack of legitimacy of the provisional government is the true damned inheritance".

Translated by SUGHEY RAMIREZ

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	Alan Marques/Folhapress
	Interim president, Michel Temer (PMDB)