Organization considered that there has been advances in agreement between the three powers, but warning to the risk of waste
It considered it that there were advances in the three powers in relation to the parliamentary amendments of 2024, but criticized the lack of criteria of Congress.
“Despite significant advances in terms of transparency, especially regarding the 2024 amendments, it still worries us the absence of technical criteria for the distribution of increasingly large amendment resources throughout Brazil.”said to Poder360 Lawyer Guilherme France, member of the International Transparency team.
France considers that there is still “High chances” of waste of resources sent by amendment. The lawyer states that the fear is that these transfers “Do not deliver quality public services to the population”.
The lawyer cited the which creates criteria to make the rules for the proposition and execution of the amendments made by federal deputies and senators more transparent. For him, if the determinations of the law are not followed, there is a greater chance that “Resources are wasted”.
On Wednesday (26.FEV.2025), the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) Flávio Dino, rapporteur of cases involving amendments at the Court, The Government’s Work Plan and Congress on Parliamentary Transfers. Na the Executive and the Legislature pledged to identify congressmen who indicate and support parliamentary amendments.
The decision will be submitted to the Virtual Plenary of the Supreme Court, in a session scheduled for the period from 14 to 21 March. With this, Dino canceled the conciliation hearing of the three powers, which was scheduled for Thursday (27.FEV.2025).
Follow-up
International Transparency participates as friend of the court (direct action of unconstitutionality) that questions the laws that made it mandatory to perform some modalities of transfers and funds via deputies and senators. Friend of the court It is a Latin expression used to designate the third party that enters the process.
Individual parliamentary amendments have been imposing (mandatory payment) since 2015, in a decision taken by the Dilma Rousseff Government Congress. Already the bench amendments have been imposing since 2019, also by decision of Congress, this making in the Jair Bolsonaro government. There are also commission amendments, whose execution is not mandatory.
