The rebalancing of Brazil’s depleted public accounts would be done gradually and accompanied with policies that create jobs and raise income under a possible government of Vice President Michel Temer, his top economic adviser told Reuters on Wednesday.

Temer could become Brazil’s next leader in coming weeks as a growing number of disgruntled lawmakers move quickly to impeach leftist President Dilma Rousseff over accusations she broke budget laws.

Wellington Moreira Franco, a confidant of the vice president and coordinator of his party’s economic plan, said the biggest challenge of a Temer administration would be to shore up the country’s finances.

“That fiscal rebalancing will have to be accompanied with incentives to generate jobs and raise income,” said Franco in the offices of Temer’s Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) in Congress. “It has to be a gradual adjustment … if not you risk suffocating the population.”

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A prolonged recession in Brazil fanned by political turmoil will drag on economic growth for the next two years in Latin America, a region already reeling from falling commodity prices, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

In its World Economic Outlook, the IMF revised its 2016 recession estimate for the region to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent. It would be Latin America’s second straight year of contraction and the worst performance of any region – including the slow-recovering Euro area.

Although the IMF expects most of the region’s economies to pick up steam in 2017, growth will remain moderate given the impact of what could be Brazil’s worst recession in more than a century.

The Fund sees Latin America growing 1.5 percent in 2017.

The worsening political crisis that could oust leftist President Dilma Rousseff in the coming weeks has thrown Brazil further into chaos by slashing investment and consumer spending in what was until a few years ago an emerging success story.

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