Rural caucus leader criticizes Lula’s radicalization against agribusiness

Federal congressman Pedro Lupion (PP-PR), the new leader of the House’s Parliamentary Front for Farming (FPA), criticized the Lula government’s stance against agribusiness.

According to him, the PT administration has acted with an “ideological radicalism” against the sector responsible for employing almost 20 million people.

In his second mandate, the congressman will be sworn in next Wednesday 1st and promised to overthrow Lula’s decrees that, according to Lupion, “emptied” the Ministry of Agriculture.

“We are going to act immediately to reverse acts of the Lula administration, which promoted the complete emptying of the Ministry of Agriculture,” he said in an interview with the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, published on Tuesday 31st.

“They took the National Rural Environmental Cadastre System (CAR) out of the portfolio and transferred it to the Ministry of Environment. The ministry also lost the National Supply Company (Conab) and the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture. This ended with the possibility of long-term planning.”

According to the parliamentarian, the FPA should house more than 300 parliamentarians. With this, they will have enough political strength to approve projects that deal with environmental licensing, land tenure regularization, and pesticides.

According to Lupion, the government will face strong opposition around the issue in Congress, countering the ideological radicalism it has adopted.

“The government started very radicalized, ideologized,” he observed.

“I’ve been telling people to calm down: the rural union people, the cooperatives, because the game hasn’t started yet, Congress hasn’t taken hold. Today, the government is surfing alone, but I see from the profile of the benches that have been elected, both in the House and in the Senate, that the government is not going to have an easy time.”

With information from Revista Oeste