Chamber and Senate ask the STF to release suspended funds, claiming that they have already approved a law with rules on transfers
On Wednesday night (Nov. 27, 2024) they sent petitions to the (Supreme Federal Court) for Minister Flávio Dino to authorize the payment of congressmen’s amendments, suspended since August. Congress justifies that it is complying with the rules of transparency in the execution of funds, required by the magistrate to release the transfers.
The documents were signed by the attorneys general of both Houses. The Legislature declares that the conditions imposed by Dino were also met with the complementary law by the president (PT).
“With these measures, it is observed that the formal and material requirements of the Court’s decisions regarding the parliamentary amendments of general rapporteur and committee were met, thus allowing the reestablishment of the due execution of the public budget”the petition states. Here are the of petitions (PDT – 833 kB).
According to the Poder360Dino received and began analyzing the requests, but there is still no expected response.
The document requests the “reestablishment of the execution of the remains payable of the General Rapporteur’s amendments (RP-9) and the committee amendments (RP-8) by virtue of Complementary Law no. 210, of 2024, which promotes greater transparency, traceability and public control in the budget execution of parliamentary amendments”.
The text approved this year established the minimum obligation to allocate 50% of the transfers from commission amendments to health. The identification of the congressmen who indicate the transfers, however, is not in the text. This is one of the central points of the discussion regarding the transparency of amendments.
Currently, these amendments are identified with the signatures of the committee presidents, with the argument that they are collective. The approved text only says that it will be up to party leaders to make the nominations and that those approved must be included in minutes, which will be published and forwarded to the executing bodies within 5 days.
According to the approved project, only permanent congressional committees will be able to present amendments. The text establishes that there must be an identification “it needs” about the reasons and prohibits “generic designation”. However, it does not say what these criteria would be.
NOVEL OF AMENDATIONS
Amendments by congressmen have been the target of a series of decisions by Dino since August, which culminated in thepayment of which is mandatory by the government.
Dino only authorized transfers in cases of public calamity and in works already in progress.
The minister’s actions caused tension between the Three Powers, until, on August 20, representatives from Planalto, the STF and Congress. It was agreed that the release must be carried out following transparency and traceability criteria.
At the time, the Court gave 10 days for the Executive and Congress to publish the new rules.
