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(Tiago Pereira. Rede Brasil Atual).

On a trip to Europe, Fernando Haddad also sought support from the ministers of Spain and Italy in the global effort to tax the world’s billionaires.

São Paulo – The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, met this Thursday morning (6) with Pope Francis, at the Vatican. In a meeting lasting around 25 minutes, Haddad once again defended the creation of a global tax on the super-rich .

In this sense, the intention is to garner support from the pontiff of the Catholic Church for Brazil’s proposal for the presidency of the G20, which envisages charging a 2% tax on the wealth of around 3,000 billionaires around the world. In this way, the resources would be used to combat hunger and climate change.

During the audience, Haddad presented the pope with a gourd and mate bomb, a reference to the floods that hit Rio Grande do Sul . Last month, the Vatican donated 100 thousand euros in aid to the people of Rio Grande do Sul.

Through social media, the minister celebrated the meeting with the pontiff, in the name of “a global economy with ties that combat misery and poverty”. The Vatican also released a video showing the pope’s reception of Haddad.

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