Survey shows that 76% of Brazilians are against federal from 513 to 531. The change in early May and entered the agenda for vote on Tuesday (17).
Datafolha survey indicates that only 20% of the population is in favor of expansion, while 2% do not know and 1% claim to be indifferent. 2,004 people were interviewed 16 years or older on June 10 and 11, with a margin of error of two percentage points.
The change, provided for in a complementary bill, aims to according to the population data of the 2022 census. The last update was made in 1994, based on the 1985 Census.
The change follows a decision of the Supreme Court (STF) of 2023. At the request of Pará, the Court determined that Congress adjust the distribution until June 30, otherwise it will be up to the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) to define the division by October, for the next.
The bill is among the four items based on the Senate session this Tuesday (17), but depends on an urgent approval by the senators. The president of the house, David Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP), said he answered one, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB).
To pass, the text needs the votes of the absolute majority, ie 41 of the 81 senators, regardless of how many are in the session. Then it goes to the sanction of President Lula (PT).
When Motta assumed the presidency of the House in January, he indicated that instead of simply redistributing the number of federal deputies, he would like to increase the total number of chairs, so that no state lost representatives, including his, Paraíba.
In the solution adopted by his countryman, the rapporteur Damião Feliciano (União Paulo), no state will lose places, and nine will win: Pará and Santa Catarina (4 each), Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Norte (2), Goiás, Ceará, Paraná and Minas Gerais (1).
The representativeness project between the federative units.
The vote in the house occurred hurriedly and ended with a score of. The deputies approved the urgency of the project hours earlier, preventing the issue from being taken to discussion in the commissions.
The House calculates at R $ 64.6 million per year the increase in vacancies costs, including wages, benefits and structure for 18 new parliamentarians. The Feliciano rapporteur states that this value would be absorbed by the current budget, at no additional cost.
The total impact, however, must be greater, since these deputies may indicate. In addition, the expenses of the legislative assemblies of the States will increase, as the Constitution links the number of state deputies to that of federal.
