Pacification of transparency rules for parliamentary amendments in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) must unlock the 2025 budget analysis in the National Congress. The imbroglio on the resources, the target of negotiation for months, damaged last year the analysis of the project of the annual budget law of 2025 (PLOA).
On Friday (28), the Supreme Court formed a majority to approve work plan on actions to give transparency and more traceability to amendments. The document was sent by the Federal Attorney General (AGU) after months of negotiation with the government and the congress. With the understanding, parliamentarians evaluate that Congress is now safe to discuss the budget.
The Mixed Budget Commission (CMO) has to analyze the proposal. Ploa rapporteur, Senator Angelo Colonel (PSD-BA), however, believes that the meeting should serve to wake up adjustments in the text. For him, the project should only actually be voted on the following week on March 17.
According to the president of the CMO, Deputy Júlio Arcoverde (PP-PI), the commission will concentrate all efforts to approve by the 18th. After passing the board, the budget text still needs to be voted in a joint session of deputies and senators in the plenary of Congress.
“I reject any statement that Congress was missing to approve the budget at the end of last year. It would be irresponsible for our CMO to approve a budget piece devoid of rules and rules on parliamentary amendments, ”he said in a statement.
In addition to the impasse on the amendments, at the end of last year, Congress directed the work to analyze the fiscal adjustment package. The two factors extended the 2025 budget vote, which should have ideally approved before the beginning of the year.
Without the budget law in force, the Executive began the year authorized to make only essential or mandatory expenses. By the AGU work plan on the amendments, after the budget sanction, the government foresees to edit within 15 days a concierge to define deadlines and procedures for the operationalization of amendments.
