Survey made by Sheet It shows that 110 deputies and senators concentrated, alone, allied mayors who ended reelected in 2024 and, therefore,.
The analysis considered parliamentarians who allocated 70% or more from those received by each of these cities in the last two years. With the transfers, this select group of congressmen reigned almost alone, in terms of funds, in 216 municipalities of co -religionists.
In practice, this means that ambulances, paving and other investments made possible with the money sent by congressmen, projecting their names as a unique option among the local population, especially in the pre-election period.
Those by this set of parliamentarians are smaller and the general: 84% of them have up to 20,000 inhabitants (against 69% in the country) and 38% record a “low” or “very low” human development rate (against 25% in country), considering the HDI 2010.
Most of them focus on only three states – Minas Gerais (28%), Bahia (17%) and Piauí (10%).
Already the 110 congressmen analyzed integrate parties from left to right, being the subtitles that appear the most (21), (19), (15) and (12). Just over half of these politicians “reigns” in two or more municipalities with their amendments, while the other half predominates in just one municipality.
Graziella Testa, a political scientist and FGV teacher, explains that sending amendments to electoral strongholds is not a problem in itself, as in principle this device was created to decentralize the budget and guarantee funds for local demands from regions not achieved by the government federal.
“The question is the electoral use of amendments. This risk is very sharp when they are individual. The ideal – and discuss this since 1992 in Brazil, with the – is that they are predominantly collective, which would make it more difficult to use Resources in direct political competition, “he says.
She adds that the party and electoral funds are already good for this: “We already finance the parties and those through state money very well.”
A Sheet It showed that with individual amendments during the term reelected last year, an index above 85% total in the country. The value of transfers since 2020, both in the government of (PL) and (PT).
Now the report has analyzed the so -called “commitment notes” of individual amendments – which detail, for example, if the same donation went to more than one city. Only the favored administration or public fund were included, not to mention NGOs, for example.
Who most dominates cities alone is Deputy Pinheirinho (PP), main destinator of resources to 11 municipalities of Minas Gerais. Together, these places total about 80,000 inhabitants, which corresponds to almost 60% of the votes he received in 2022, when he was the 11th most voted between 53 elected.
“A Christmas gift for Queluzito!” Celebrated Mayor Danilo Albuquerque, also from the PP, in December post that announced the receipt of R $ 250 thousand in amendments of the parliamentarian. “I thank the heart of the Pinheirinho deputy for the support and partnership of the usual,” he wrote.
Three months earlier, the two came out in a motorcade through the municipality of 2,000 inhabitants to ask for votes to Albuquerque. “This union is essential to build the future that Queluzito deserves,” the mayor published. Pinheirinho is also the only supporter of Serra and Father Pedro (MG).
Sought by the report by messages and through his advisory, he did not respond.
After him, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI) and Deputy Gervásio Maia (-PB), who dominate the amendments sent to six allied municipalities in their states, appear secondly tied in second place.
Jurema, municipality of 4,400 inhabitants in the far south of Piauí, was the one that received the highest amount per person (R $ 788) from the senator in the last two years. The city gave a significant vote to Castro in 2018 (47% of valid votes) and reelected Mayor Dr. Kaylanne, also from the MDB, in 2024.
Castro has a history of amendments intended for works performed by family companies in Piauí, revealed by different vehicles in recent years.
In May last year, for example, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office opened a civil inquiry to investigate the direction of a bid to a cataract surgeries made with their amendments. The guardian would be the hospital of his nephew, Thiago de Castro, according to a report by Veja magazine.
Asked, Castro did not comment. The senator’s eight -year term ends in 2026, so he can try to reelect himself.
If you also decide to compete again, Paraíba Gervásio should have the help of the reelected allies of Jericho, Mato Grosso, Alagoa Nova, Santa Cecilia, Pedro Regis and Cassarengue, cities where he was the main donor and whose added populations represent 74% of 69 A thousand votes he received in 2022.
The most benefited city was Mato Grosso, where he had its best result (65% of the valid votes) and helped reelect Mayor Gidalva Lima, also from the PSD. “Historical motorcade in Mato Grosso confirms: on October 6, is Gidalva Lima,” published the deputy to Dias da Election.
Gervásio states that he was already sending amendments to the municipality even when the former mayor was his opponent, as he does with other cities, and that in his six terms, as a state or federal deputy, he always sought improvements for Paraíba as a whole, being careful in the amendments.
“Our political history comes from this region of Catolé do Rocha, so, to anywhere you go, you will see benefits conquered by our work. The problem is that the division of the union cake has always been very unfair, the Northeast has always been very deprived “, it says.
