The president of, (-PB), changed the “peace and love” style of the early days of mandate and turned on the speeches and actions related to the (Supreme Court) and the Lula Government (PT) after risk losing support from colleagues.
Motta made two stronger gestures to maintain his cohesive support base: he determined that the loss of the mandate of Mrs Carla Zambelli (-SP) by conviction in the Supreme Court will be decided by the plenary and decided to advance with two legislative decree projects to support rules of the executive branch.
The center of the whole clash is in the budget parliamentary amendments, a mechanism by which congressmen direct money to works and service costs at their electoral bases.
In addition to the deputies to blame the Supreme and the Government for the current difficulty of execution of parliamentary amendments, Motta cannot count, so far, with the main instrument used by its predecessor to build a support base: the distribution of funds to those who are faithful.
Commission amendments to the budget are stopped this year. According to the commission leaders and presidents, there are no definition of how much each party will receive, and the expectation is that this will be resolved only for the second semester, given the imposition of new rules by the Supreme.
With no resources to offer the benches, it is more difficult to manage internal dissatisfaction, and the mayor had to adopt more concrete measures to crash criticism and reaffirm the house’s prerogatives, according to his allies.
The most conciliatory stance at the beginning of management states their interlocutors, due to his own profile and a contrast with his predecessor and ally, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), which was known as.
Lira entered several clashes with the STF minister around the payment of parliamentary amendments.
Motta sought a conciliation with Dino even before being elected mayor and gave way to the minister’s main demand that the commission amendments were named after the plaintiff. He also avoided confronting the Supreme of amnesty to the convicts of the scammer acts of January 8 and did not guide the subject, although he declared that he considered part of the penalties exaggerated.
Dino, however, continues to press Congress on parliamentary amendments. The minister made a new decision to question the direction of funds from the Ministry of Health on Tuesday (10) and marked a public hearing to discuss the imposition of these funds to June 27.
The deputies also complain about the disrespect of the Supreme Court to approved laws, the blocking of profiles of parliamentarians on social networks, the opening of inquiries to punish congressmen for speeches in the podium and that the ministers ignored decisions of the Chamber, such as when the plenary decided to completely suspend the criminal action against the deputy (PL-RJ).
One of the main gestures of Motta reaction to the Supreme Court was to guide in plenary the request of the PL to support the criminal action against branch. Subsequently, the first class of the Supreme and agreed with the suspension of only two of the five crimes imputed to him by the Public Prosecution Service.
Now Motta has complied with the court order to block payments and Zambelli’s parliamentary quota, but chose to bring the STF’s decision to decree the loss of the mandate.
Initially, he said the board of directors would only comply with the Supreme’s decision, but retreated and decided to throw the case to the plenary. The change has occurred because it understands that this process is unprecedented and that it is better to share the resolution with most of the house.
In the case of the government, Motta traveled alongside President Lula at the beginning of his management and participated in executive ceremonies. Recently, however, he preferred to reject the invitation to an official mission in China and Russia and go to the United States to meet businessmen who are critics of the PT’s fiscal agenda.
The mayor made specific criticism, early in his term, about the need for the government to cut public spending. But the differences climbed when Lula published a decree that increased the IOF (Tax on Financial Operations) and then with the provisional tax measure. Both initiatives were attacked by entrepreneurs, and Motta verbalized this dissatisfaction.
“I have already communicated to the economic team that the measures that are preacted should have,” said the mayor, who said it has not yet “to serve the political project” of any government.
On Monday (16), an urgent request will be voted on to accelerate a legislative decree project that suspends the effectiveness of the IOF decree, while deputies press the government to submit a structural spending cutting package as an alternative.
The mayor made a point of exposing that the urgency will be on the agenda at the request of most parties and sought a negotiation with the government by giving ten days for alternative measures to be discussed, but that the proposal did not please the legislature for configuring tax increase.
According to allies, the point of turn in the relationship was in May. The Finance Minister stated that the government was committed to putting public accounts in order, but it depended much more on the legislature.
Currently, there is a great discomfort in the House with the delay in paying the imposing (mandatory execution) amendments and last year’s agreements that have not been fulfilled so far.
Until Friday (13), only R $ 85.7 million from R $ 50.4 billion authorized in the 2025 budget for amendments were committed (budget reserved).
Motta also guided, for next week, a Legislative Decree project to support the Ministry of Labor Ordinance that requires a collective agreement to work on Sundays and holidays by trade employees to occur without additional compensation. Inclusion complies with the request of the New Party and business sectors.
The harder speech about other powers was necessary to reaffirm the role of the House in some situations, the president told allies. But he has pointed out that he will maintain the conciliatory style and the pursuit of dialogue to make decisions, as he has done throughout his mandates.
