Kim Kataguiri: Just as the Batista brothers are very influential and friends of Trump, they are also friends of President Lula and, historically, relied on his policies of promoting national champions to become what they are today — to drive smaller slaughterhouses out of business and buy them up using the subsidies and tax and credit privileges that were granted during Lula's government.
Kim Kataguiri: Deputy Chico spoke about it not being bad to be a minority within parliament, better than having a majority based on 'toma lá, dá cá'.
But today Lula's government precisely has a majority based on 'toma lá, dá cá'.
Kim Kataguiri: Ninety percent of the proposals the government puts forward are approved, and the most important ones with the government paying for amendments via the secret budget.
Kim Kataguiri: I disagree here with what Deputy Chico said about it being only 12%.