The Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) signaled that the Court will discuss the limitation of the main political instrument of deputies and senators: the parliamentary amendments of mandatory payment. Movement can open a new clash focus with Congress.
Dino summoned a public hearing for the so -called budget -imposing amendments. The order that marks the meeting was filled with nominations contrary to the mechanism.
Parliamentary amendments total R $ 50 billion per year, 77% of an imposing character, ie, of mandatory execution by the government. Congress control over the federal budget has been built over the last ten years and is the main reason for the current empowerment of deputies and senators.
Dino is the author of decisions that opened direct friction with Congress on the issue of transparency of amendments. Now it indicates that it will take one more step.
According to people close to the minister, the intention is to prevent the government’s investment money in investments.
The movement was received by parliamentarians with concern. For now, however, there is no hit on a coordinated reaction to the court.
Congressmen complain that the minister seeks to legislate, since the obligation of amendment expense was established with the approval of constitutional amendments.
In addition, the movement would resume a crisis that, from Congress, was signed in February to give more transparency to the committee amendments to the budget – uses by deputies and senators to distribute billions in unidentified public resources.
Deputies and senators heard by Sheet They said the first initiative will be to probe the STF about the weather in court to advance this. On Tuesday (20), deputies questioned the minister at a dinner, but he replied that he did not know the call of the public hearing and that the scope of the decision.
The perception in Congress is that the theme is even more explosive than the action of the Supreme Court that temporarily suspended the payment of commission amendments, which have no imposing character. The previous case affected a smaller group of parliamentarians, especially presidents and party leaders, who had the largest amounts.
Already the individual and state benches are received by all congressmen in an equal, opposition or base.
“Now, he will play the Achilles heel of many who only attend our resistance to Minister Dino, who resigned to the only position that gave him the right to legally legislate,” says PSDB leader at Plínio Valério (AM).
Until 2015, each deputy and senator had about $ 16 million in amendments, and the government had the power not to pay any penny if it wanted to.
Since then, supported by the executive’s political weaknesses in the second term of Dilma Rousseff and (2016-2018) and (2019-2022), Congress gradually approved the obligation to perform the amendments, as well as the significant increase in their values.
In 2025, each deputy indicated R $ 37.3 million in individual amendments, and each senator, R $ 68.5 million. In the case of benches, each state receives R $ 528.9 million.
Dino decided on the obligation to pay the amendments. The debate, according to the minister, aims to obtain technical elements to judge the constitutionality of the imposing amendments.
The intention of the minister, according to assistants, is to bring the theme to the STF plenary, in order to achieve the backing of the entire Court to limit the amendments. In the order, he did not rule out injunction, “if it proves to be essential and urgent, in the light of the 2025 budget execution and the preparation of the 2026 budget.”
One of the points that the minister intends to question, as reported by the interlocutors, is the ability of the congressmen to decide the specific destination of the money. The idea is that parliamentarians can allocate funds in large areas, such as health, education or safety programs, but without requiring payment to specific actions or places.
A senator, in the view reported by the minister, could make compulsory the execution of funds for the construction of day care centers, but not to choose which one would be built. Today, in his understanding, a congressman acts as an expenses plaintiff, but without assuming the inherent responsibilities for this (how to answer for misuse of the money).
In the order, Dino does not anticipate judgment on the subject, but reproduces predominantly critical opinions and studies on the impacts on the separation of powers, the efficiency of public management, fiscal responsibility and the presidential system.
Dino summoned the hearing in the scope of action filed by the. The party argues that the obligation to pay the funds allocated by parliamentarians means a “disastrous disharmony” between the powers.
“It is clear that the model of budget appropriation by Parliament affected the independence and harmony between the executive and the legislature. He disrupts the contours of the separation of powers in Brazil, as it significantly diminished the possibility of the executive thinking and executing public projects and investments for Brazil,” said the acronym.
They were invited to attend the hearing governors, the (Federal Court of Audit), four ministries (planning, the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Attorney General of the Union and Comptroller General of the Union), the National Front of Mayors, Senate, Chamber and the National Confederation of Municipalities.
The episode can create another chapter in the crisis between the two powers, which also conflicted in relation to the amnesty project to the convicts of the January 8 coup attacks and the decision to wage the criminal action against the deputy (-RJ).
