The (Federal Supreme Court) began analyzing this Monday (2) the minister, but imposes reservations. 10 minutes into the session, and the president has already endorsed the rapporteur’s position.
The trial takes place in the virtual plenary session from 6pm and continues until 11:59pm on Tuesday (3). The topic has been a source of crisis between the Powers in recent months.
In the morning, Dino authorized the resumption while harshly criticizing the model. “There has never been such institutional disarray with so much public money in so few years.”
The minister stated that reports made by the (Comptroller General of the Union) make it clear that the constitutional requirements of transparency and traceability are being violated, in a “blatantly unconstitutional way”, with billions of reais “multiplying on a geometric scale”.
“The reports that now constitute evidence in the case file confirm that the preparation and execution of a relevant portion of the public budget occurs with the naturalization of deviation from normative guidelines, based on a flagrantly unconstitutional mechanism, set up especially from the year 2019, when The billions of reais allocated by the National Congress were multiplying on a geometric scale, simultaneously with lack of control and opacity, a situation that extends to the current Legislature.”
In the 65-page decision, the minister also writes that, given this scenario, it is not excessive to point out that there are four models in the world: presidentialism, parliamentarism, semi-presidentialism and that of “Brazil, with an absolutely unique system of government in concert of the nations.”
Dino also decided that the monitoring of the amendments, the subject of the action being processed under his report, will extend to the 2025 financial year, “with periodic contextualization and conciliation hearings, as well as new audits, when necessary”.
The magistrate made harsh observations about the matter — which were boosted with the end of the rapporteur’s amendments, in 2022. Last week, the Chamber reaffirmed that it would not be possible to identify the sponsors of the nominations because the decisions were “collegiate”.
In this Monday’s decision, Dino established rules for the resumption of each of the amendments (individual, “Pix”, state bench and commission). Rapporteur amendments from previous years and committee amendments, for example, should only be paid for by the Executive if the name of the sponsor is indicated.
Dino also conditioned the payment of the “Pix” amendments to the presentation of a work plan – a type of amendment (technically called a special transfer) available to each of the congressmen that fell directly into the city hall’s coffers without any indication of how the money should be used.
