The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), approved the plan presented by to achieve the release of parliamentary amendments. The magistrate, however, maintained caveats previously imposed, such as suspensions related to NGOs and third sector entities.
It also made clear the requirement that direct transfers to states and municipalities, popularly called pix amendments, are only paid with the presentation of work plans. In addition, it reinforced the determination that they cannot grow at a higher pace than the fiscal framework, the government’s discretionary expenses or the variation of net current revenue.
In the decision on Wednesday (26), the rapporteur stated that if the decision is endorsed by the plenary of the Court, there is no more impediment to the execution of parliamentary amendments to the budget of 2025, as well as those related to previous exercises.
But the minister stressed that the approval of the agreement is not definitive, which will remain attentive to the agreement to be fulfilled and has given a deadline until May 30 so that Congress provides new information on the progress of technical and legislative adjustments promised in a work plan.
“The focus plan in focus offers a path of institutional improvement for the Brazilian state, but does not close the debate, with its natural controversies,” the minister said in the decision.
Dino gave Congress new messages on the subject. He stated that new dialogues will be needed to deal with all existing issues and that inquiries and lawsuits in progress on cases of irregular use of the money will be maintained, “so that corresponding sanctions are applied.”
The mayor, (Republicans-PB), celebrated the approval of the plan presented by the congress. He said it is the result of dialogue between powers and “recognition of parliamentary prerogatives”.
“The decision of Minister Flávio Dino (STF), to approve the work plan of the amendments, is the result of the legislature’s efforts to dialogue with the other powers. It is also a recognition of the prerogatives of parliamentarians,” he said at X, former Twitter.
The president of the Senate, (-ap), kept the same line as Motta, extolling a “important result for Brazil”.
In his decision, Dino said that harmony between powers does not rule out the duty of the judiciary to act when needed. The minister also says that the joint work plan establishes rails so that there is greater transparency and traceability in the execution of parliamentary amendments. But in practice there is still much to be done, citing the volume of resources for amendments.
“In the political, economic and social spheres remained issues of very high factual and legal meaning, notably the compatibility of the high amount of parliamentary amendments with the principle of efficiency, constitutional stature. Certainly, in other times, externally and internally to legal proceedings, new dialogues and measures will be necessary,” he said.
According to the rapporteur, the phenomenon of parliamentary amendments in Brazil is unique in the world and makes the power of the legislature expanded over that of the executive.
“This Brazilian institutional novelty in which the foray of the Legislative Power in budget execution, with imposing amendments that reach tens of billions of reais, year by year, strongly migrates competencies of the Executive Power to Legislature, regarding the specific choice of administrative works and actions, going far beyond the classic budgetary elaboration,” he said.
The minister also canceled a conciliation hearing scheduled for this Thursday (27) with representatives of Congress. According to Dino, a new meeting may be marked after the analysis of the plan by the STF plenary, to monitor its implementation.
The directors of and promised on Tuesday (25) to the supreme individualize the name of the authors of the rapporteur and commission amendments to try to unlock the execution of these resources.
These for not identifying the parliamentarian responsible for deciding how public money would be spent.
In response to the Supreme Court, the Congress has listed measures that will be adopted to give more transparency and traceability to these appeals, such as the standardization of minutes with the decisions of state benches and thematic commissions on how to choose funds and spreadsheets so that deputies and senators indicate the beneficiary.
The legislature is also committed to approving a resolution project with these regulations and determine that the committees vote, until March 31, to agree how the 2024 amendments were distributed or if they want to modify them.
Flávio Dino ordered last August that the federal government suspended the payment of parliamentary amendments, but the arm wrestling climbed in December, when he called AE and said the House omitted information on the distribution of amendments. The theme has become an impasse between powers, with pressure also on the Lula administration, which is critical of the high values for this type of expense.
The explosion of funds from 2020 moved more than R $ 148.9 billion in five years. The increase drained resources from ministries and deputies and senators.
The figure represents more than four times the amount disbursed in parliamentary nominations in the previous cycle, from 2015 to 2019, of R $ 32.8 billion.
Of the total amount paid in the last five years, about R $ 74 billion is the so -called individual amendments, while R $ 29.5 billion were directed by state benches, and R $ 9 billion came from the thematic committees of the House and the.
The destination of the amendments is also in the sights of investigations into alleged irregularities that.
The increase in budget control by Congress has made public agencies dependent on parliamentary nominations for routine expenses. The Ministry of Sports, for example, had more than, according to a survey by the Sheet.
