The House approved, on Tuesday night (6), a complementary bill that provides from 513 to 531, and.
The proposal was approved by 270 to 207 and now will go to the Federal Senate analysis.
The project aims to adapt the proportion of strength among states according to the most up -to -date data of the 2022 census, (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), and meets a determination of the (Federal Supreme Court) to be done by June 30.
If this project is not fully approved in there, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) shall regulate the issue.
The proposal that expands from 513 to 531 the total parliamentarians of the house was made to prevent some state benches from decreasing during redistribution. The proportion, by the project, is valid from the legislature elected in 2026.
The expected annual impact with this increase is R $ 64.6 million per year-it would be absorbed by the current budget of the House, at no additional cost, according to the rapporteur of the matter, Deputy Damião Feliciano (União Brasil-PB).
Redistribution of vacancies was a demand from the Supreme Court to prevent states whose population has grown in recent years from being sub -reported in the house.
Initially, the proposal caused some states to lose chairs in the plenary so that others won, which generated controversy between the benches.
It was the case of Paraíba itself, the mayor, (), and the current rapporteur of the matter, who would have 2 less parliamentarians. The benches of Rio de Janeiro (4), Bahia (2), Piauí (2), Rio Grande do Sul (2), Alagoas (1) and Pernambuco (1) would also be reduced.
The Federal Constitution determines that representation in should be proportional to the population of each state. But the constituents defined a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 70 deputies per unit of the federation.
The number of chairs per state, however, is not changed since December 1993, the year in which the last redesign of vacancies in the House occurred from the approval of a complementary law. There was no update of the size of the benches from the 2000 and 2010 census data.
Currently, the state of Santa Catarina, for example, has a population of 7.7 million inhabitants according to the 2022 census and only 16 federal deputies. The size of the bench is lower than that of states with the lowest population, such as Maranhão, which has 6.8 million residents and 18 federal deputies.
Motta assumed the presidency in 2025 and stated that instead of simply redistributing, he would like to increase the total number of chairs, so that no (nor his) bench lost places.
In the solution adopted by their countryman, Damião Feliciano, win chairs nine states: Pará (4), Santa Catarina (4), Amazonas (2), Mato Grosso (2), Rio Grande do Norte (2), Goiás (1), Ceará (1), Paraná (1) and Minas Gerais (1).
The text determines that the composition should not be changed before a new edition of the census happens and allows parties to enter the (Union Court of Auditors) to request data audit and chair redistribution.
Voting occurred hurriedly. The House approved the urgency of the project hours earlier, as it prevented the subject from being taken to discussion in the commissions of the house.
Most parties have released their benches to vote at the discretion of each parliamentarian. Opposition and minority, in addition to the Federation -Rede, sent a vote contrary to the proposal.
The expectation of deputies now is that the Senate meets the voting period before the end of June, to prevent the Supreme Court from deciding on the subject.
Prams favorable to the agenda also study the best way to equate these new costs within the House budget, even if it resorts to new revenues, so that the proposal does not entail an extra cost to the Union.
In the justification of the bill, the author, Deputy Dani Cunha (União Brasil-RJ), states that the 2022 Census “brought several inconsistencies that harmed some states and many municipalities”, without detailing that this information was based.
“The census determines the calculation of the transfer of resources distributed from the Union and participation in constitutional funds, in which case a risk of financial loss relevant to some entities,” she said in the project.
In 2023, Minister Luiz Fux, rapporteur of the subject in the Supreme Court, said that the periodic non -revision of the proportionality of vacancies in the legislature creates a “representative asymmetry” and violates the democratic principle.
How would the formation of the Chamber be if the proposal of increasing vacancies comes into force:
Acre: 8 deputies
Alagoas: 9
Amapá: 8
Amazonas: 10 (+2)
Bahia: 39
Ceará: 23 (+1)
Federal District: 8
Holy Spirit: 10
Goiás: 18 (+1)
Maranhão: 18
Minas Gerais: 54 (+1)
Mato Grosso do Sul: 8
Mato Grosso: 10 (+2)
Pará: 21 (+4)
Paraíba: 12
Pernambuco: 25
Piauí: 10
Paraná: 31 (+1)
Rio de Janeiro: 46
Rio Grande do Norte: 10 (+2)
Rondônia: 8
Roraima: 8
Rio Grande do Sul: 31
Santa Catarina: 20 (+4)
Sergipe: 8
Sao Paulo: 70
Tocantins: 8
Total: 531
