The sent this Monday (30) to the (Federal Supreme Court) a response in which it recognizes that the committee’s parliamentary amendments were not approved by the House’s thematic bodies, but still requests the release of the amounts through a commitment to vote in February, after Congress recess.
The amendments — billion-dollar resources from the Union Budget with destination defined by federal deputies and senators — are the subject of after a decision to block their execution by .
The STF minister focused his decision on the so-called committee amendments, whose appeals in theory should be decided by the parliamentarians who make up the thematic bodies of the Chamber and Senate (Education, Health, Constitution and Justice committees, among several others).
“If Your Excellency understands it as applicable to the current procedure [o Orçamento de 2024]it is requested that budgetary commitments be authorized, conditioning the consequent payment
approval of individualizations by the committees, immediately after the parliamentary recess”, says a text signed by the Senate’s legal department.
Dino had demanded a response from the Senate after blocking the resources for the amendments, just as he did with the Chamber. The case of the deputies is similar: the amendments were also not approved by the committees, and the distribution was approved by party leaders.
“Each party leader was responsible for formalizing the individualization of amendments of their own interest or that of their leaders, exclusively”, said the Senate letter.
This Monday, Dino’s decision and instructed all ministries not to carry out the commitments of the commission amendments.
Under the argument of legal certainty, the STF minister had authorized the execution of some of them, even though he argued that non-compliance with the laws and a lack of transparency remained.
When contacted through his consultancy, the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), did not want to comment on the AGU’s opinion.
The uncertainty surrounding the execution of the commission amendments, which total almost R$5 billion, generated a reaction from parliamentarians, which led to an attempt at an agreement between the government, STF and Congress, in a scenario that still remains undefined.
Parliamentary amendments are today the main mechanism for action by deputies and senators and have also been targets of .
Behind the scenes, party leaders claim that there is coordinated action between Dino, who was Lula’s minister, and the government to aggressively reduce the weight of parliamentary amendments in the federal budget. The STF minister also ordered an investigation by the Federal Police.
Congress is on recess and will only return to work in February, when retaliation may occur in votes of interest to the government.
