The trickery designed to unlock the payment of parliamentary amendments represents more than an ordinary day in the relationship between Planalto and Congress. By defining rules that guarantee the release of money when the lights go out in 2024, the government closes a generous agreement with the center for the second half of this term.
The blockade imposed by Flávio Dino on the spree of amendments put detonators in the structure of the flow of funds set up by Congress in recent times. The government did not hide that it saw the decision as an opportunity to exchange support in votes in the Chamber and Senate.
Planalto took a step back when it realized that it would not be able to win this war, not even with the support of the STF. The public threat of paralysis of political operations of interest to the government was enough to convince Lula to preserve important cogs in the arrangement that supplies parliamentarians.
The government ordinance pushes Congress towards some transparency in the allocation of funds and gives Planalto some discretion to open and close the payment tap, but leaves enough loopholes. One of them allows committee amendments to continue to be sliced by the bigwigs of the center, now camouflaged under the signature of party leaders.
The agreement is not just a bureaucratic adjustment to this business desk and indicates that the government once again felt the need to offer greater opening to Congress. Not by chance, the pact coincides with the return of rumors that Lula could appoint a deputy from the center to head the political coordination, which would make the distribution of amendments even easier.
The agreement was also closed courtesy of another coincidence, which reveals the center’s shamelessness. On Monday (9), deputy Elmar Nascimento warned that the voting agenda was blocked due to the blocking of payments. The next day, in an operation against the embezzlement of amendments, after throwing a bag of money out the window.
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