The Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to release the parliamentary amendments after having approved transparency measures demanded by Minister Flávio Dino.
The resources have been tied up since August, when Dino made impositions presented by federal deputies and senators to the Union budget.
Dino demanded that Congress issue new rules on transparency and traceability of public money.
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The new legislation was approved last week in Congress and sanctioned by President Lula on Tuesday (26).
Requests for the release of resources were forwarded to the STF by the attorneys general of both Houses, this Wednesday (27).
“With these measures, it is observed that the formal and material requirements of the Court’s decisions regarding the parliamentary amendments of the General Rapporteur and committee were met, thus allowing the reestablishment of the due execution of the public budget”, says an excerpt from the petition .
There is no deadline for Dino to release the analysis of the law, whether it meets the requirements or will need a new wording. Amendments are Budget resources allocated by deputies and senators to electoral bases.
New rules
During the period of suspension of the amendments, Dino allowed exceptions only for resources destined for works already in progress or to respond to public calamities.
Among the points addressed by the new law are the obligation for bench amendments to be used in “projects and structuring actions for the unit of the Federation represented by the bench, with the individualization of actions and projects to meet the demands or indications of each member of the bench.”
Regarding committee amendments, the legislation states that “only the permanent committees of the Chamber of Deputies, the Federal Senate and the National Congress may present amendments, subject to their regulatory powers, for budgetary actions of national or regional interest”.
Blockade in the STF
Dino’s preliminary decision that blocked the amendments was granted within the scope of Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) 7697 presented by Psol.
The party questioned the provisions of the legislation that made the execution of individual and bench parliamentary amendments mandatory.
Dino considered that the execution of amendments to the Budget that do not comply with “technical criteria of efficiency, transparency and traceability” is incompatible with the Constitution.
In the decision, the minister highlighted that mandatory amendments must be carried out within the “terms and limits of the legal order”
