The vote on the bill that aims to give more transparency to parliamentary amendments in the Senate, this Tuesday (12), is just the first in a series of proposals that form a long queue in the drawers of Congress to be carried out in a short space of time. more than a month until the end of the year recess.
There are at least 23 texts that Senators will have to analyze and vote on by the 19th or 20th of December amid discussions that, according to Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP), leader of the government in Congress, should be tense and of many debates.
“We still have to vote on the Budget Guidelines Law (LDO), which we did not vote on. We have, at least, 19 PLNs (Congress Bill) authored by the government that are in the Mixed Budget Committee (CMO) that need to be voted on and have not yet been voted on. We still have to resume the functioning of the CMO. We have to vote on the PLOA (2025 Annual Budget Bill) and, also, at least two complementary laws related to tax reform”, detailed the senator in a recent interview with GloboNews.
According to him, the first one this Tuesday (12) will unlock at least 1/3 of the amendments that will even dictate part of next year’s budget. The resources have been blocked since Minister Flávio Dino, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered parliamentarians to draft a law that shows the processing of the resources from start to finish, with transparency from who indicated them.
Randolfe recognizes that the deadline for voting on everything that has been proposed is short, and that it could still disrupt the government’s plans regarding another proposal. Still this week, Minister Fernando Haddad (Finance) is expected to agree with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) two proposals relating to the spending cut package, which has been blocked for two weeks and could have an outcome by Wednesday (13) .
“We’re going to have to hurry up to vote on all these issues. […] We are going to have very tense weeks here at the congress”, he added.
For this Tuesday (12), Randolfe says that the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), has committed to putting the parliamentary amendments project and others of interest to the government, such as the carbon market, to a vote.
“We will vote on Tuesday, we will complete the vote on the carbon market for possible changes and forward it to the Chamber of Deputies again, we will vote on this PLP for amendments and any changes we will also forward back to the chamber”, he explained.
