The president () sanctioned this Tuesday (31) with several vetoes, including blocking parliamentary amendments and the growth of the party fund.
The text was approved on the 18th, after five months of delay. Next year’s Budget has not been approved and will be analyzed by parliamentarians when legislative work returns in February.
The LDO was published in the Union’s “Official Gazette” on the last day of the year and will still be voted on next year by deputies and senators, who can override presidential vetoes.
The law sanctioned by Lula vetoed a device that presented a new calculation for the party fund. As justification, the government claimed that the proposal “is not consistent with the sustainable fiscal regime”, because it increases the fund and compresses the value of other Electoral Justice expenses.
Both the Ministry of Finance and Planning suggested this veto, which Lula accepted.
In at least five other sections, the president removed provisions that prevented blocking amendments or gave the Legislature the prerogative to choose the order in which amendments are distributed.
The minister’s decisions, which seek to increase the transparency and traceability of these transfers, are used as justification by the Executive in certain vetoes. The payment of these resources has been a reason for dispute between the Powers and the target of legal questions.
Parliamentarians use parliamentary amendments to bring resources to their municipalities. But the Executive complains that the volume of these transfers has increased exponentially, limiting the state’s investment capacity in public policies that it deems to be more relevant.
The bill approved by parliamentarians proposed the mandatory execution of individual and bench amendments up to constitutional limits.
The government uses Dino’s decision that the Executive’s discretionary programming rules are also valid for amendments and the way the text of the law was written prevents blocking compliance with fiscal rules.
In another article, parliamentarians dealt with blocking only non-binding amendments, not authorizing the binding ones (individual and bench). The so-called “Pix amendments”, special transfers, are part of these transfers.
Lula also vetoed this provision, citing Dino’s determination. Furthermore, it also talks about special treatment for this type of resource, compared to other Executive expenses.
There is also an article in the bill that determines the execution of amendments in the order of priorities established by the authors. The government vetoed the section, claiming that it “greatly reduces the discretion of the Executive Branch in budget management, which would thus violate the separation of powers.”
