If anyone has not yet understood why the emphasis given to the endless subject of data and the insistence that they be used in a clear manner, the reason has recently emerged.
In joint operation with the , and Comptroller General of the Union (), in several states where there is evidence of fraud in tenders, and money laundering with amendment resources.
Something worth a billion and a half reais. Small fraction compared to the R$50 billion that your highnesses took from the Budget? For sampling purposes, more than enough to demonstrate the existence of a hole much deeper than just inappropriate behavior on the part of Congress.
When we talk about this insatiable appetite we also, and above all, talk about the imbalance in the conditions of electoral competition and, a more serious consequence, the commission of crimes.
It’s hard to believe that deputies and senators don’t realize the potential for scandals contained in the resistance to complying with the basic rule of transparency for public administration set out clearly in article 37 of the .
And here it is no longer a bill to be paid by the center, because the amoral counteroffensive is accepted by the whole. This includes the PT, which complains about the government’s “excessive republicanism” when responding to opponents, but occupies the position of third party in the list of recipients with the largest volume of money.
This complaint about “republicanism” was removed (at Planalto’s request) at the last minute of the national directory’s resolution dated at the beginning of the month, but it is in the essence of the party’s thinking. It evokes a statement by the then treasurer, in 2004, when he took a stand against the opening of electoral accounts on the internet: “Transparency like that is stupid”, he taught.
The core of this lesson seems to guide parliamentarians and, apparently, in surrendering to extortion, it has contaminated the Executive, which has already paid R$ 7.6 billion in amendments to unlock the economic agenda and is still charged with releasing a few billion more. Constancy of demand is the common practice of blackmail.
Never in the years that I have been following politics in Brasília, since the Constituent Assembly, have I seen such blatant demands. A consequence perhaps — or rather, certainly — of the acceptance of the motto “it is in giving that one receives”, clearly established at the time and by which “governability” would be guaranteed under the aegis of the “coalition”.
And so, 36 years later, we have reached the unsustainable point where minimal measures to reduce spending, and the 2025 Budget are held up until the throes of the legislative year because of the money-seeking rage of a Parliament free from any constraints of self-restraint.
The government tried to resolve the situation, but did so in a crooked way by trying to form an alliance with the , from which it had to withdraw, bypassing the court’s own decision in order to pay the required invoice.
It is surprising that a President of the Republic in his third term, with decades of vast experience in negotiations, did not realize where the carriage would go. The signal was given even before the inauguration in the exchange of R$ 145 billion from the Transition PEC for a “peaceful” coexistence with the Parliament with an opposition majority.
In the language of the jaguars, this was understood as authorization to advance, as the opponent admitted himself to be at a disadvantage right from the start. Give what you’re doing, with no danger of improving.
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