President Lula, who is running for re-election with the PT, defends maintaining the current policy of increasing the minimum wage

Jornal Nacional showed how the campaign day of the two candidates for President of the Republic went this Thursday (8). President Lula, who is running for re-election with the PT, defended maintaining the current policy of increasing the minimum wage.

Lula's schedule started early at Palácio da Alvorada with several meetings. First, members of the team responsible for the campaign strategy arrived. Among them, the re-elected governor of Piauí, Rafael Fonteles, from PT, chosen to coordinate communication in this second round. Afterwards, he met with the Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency, Sidônio Palmeira, and with the Minister of Finance, Dario Durigan.

The president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta, also met with Lula. He stayed at Alvorada for an hour. In the first round, the president of the Chamber supported Lula in Paraíba. At the campaign office, Lula defended the need to increase investments in infrastructure to improve the economy's growth rate:

"The only chance for us to make the debt decrease, effectively, is for you to spend on things that are necessary for the country. You make investments in assets that mean an increase in the country's assets: a railway, a hydroelectric plant, a highway. And, at the same time, you make the economy grow with a lot of investment in infrastructure works. And we know how to do that."

President Lula, who is running for re-election with the PT, defends maintaining the current policy of increasing the minimum wage — Photo: Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction

The candidate for re-election spoke about maintaining the policy of increasing the minimum wage linked to economic growth:

"Why the increase? Because GDP, the result of the growth of wealth produced by you, by me and by 215 million inhabitants. It's fair that, when the economy grows 2% or 3%, and you take this growth in GDP and distribute it to workers. And retirees continue to be workers."

Lula's campaign coordination closed the agenda for the first street events in the second round, focusing on the Northeast and Southeast.