The president of, (-PB), began to act to unlock the commission amendments to the 2025 budget, an instrument that was used by the former president of the House (-al) and the president of, (-AP), to build their support foundations in the plenary.
Motta met individually with party leaders such as and this week to show the values that each subtitle will be entitled to indicate to the commissions and ask the benches to send the suggestions for the presidency to prepare the lists.
The data will be passed on to the thematic committees of the house, which should vote and register in minutes.
These budget amendments are used by deputies and senators to direct money to their electoral bases, especially city halls, which tends to yield votes and political support in the election.
Substitutes of the extinct rapporteur amendment, the commission amendments were criticized for being confidential the name of the real authors of the nominations.
Since the end of last year, the Federal Supreme Court has determined that these appeals have more transparency and that the congress disseminates who the congressman author of each nomination is. The fight around this decision led to the stoppage of the amendments last year, to Chamber and Senate.
The resources of 2025, however, remain locked. Congress approved that these amendments will have R $ 10.5 billion in total, of which half will be destined for the health area. But commissions still need to meet to vote on indications from which programs and locations will receive the money.
Motta has been meeting with leaders of parties individually since Monday (16) to deal with these nominations and asked the benches to forward their suggestions in the coming days. His intention, according to allies, is to solve this problem by July, to unlock the funds in the second half.
The PL leader, Deputy Sostenes Cavalcante (RJ), even caused controversy with the Supreme and colleagues by saying that for the division of commission amendments if not guided by the condemned by the coup acts of 8 January 2023.
Sostenes told the press that the agreement was as follows: the party with the committee’s presidency would have 30% of the collegiate’s budget and the other parties would divide the remaining 70%. Each commission has a different value to indicate in programs, which makes some, such as health, more coveted.
The division over the PL leader and the House, and the agreement was not confirmed – even from the PL leader even say that the values said were not closed.
This time, when sought by the president of the House, the leader of the PL bench said he wanted to resolve first commission amendments from 2023 and 2024 to unlock the 2025 resources there. “Payments are stopped,” he said. THE Sheet He learned that other parties placed the same request.
Parliamentarians complain that the government maintains the execution of the actions approved through the rapporteur and commission amendments regarding previous years, which hinders the previously signed agreements within Congress.
This protest was taken by (PT) on Saturday (14). Government members, in turn, argue that the Executive needs to adapt to the decisions of the Minister, of the Supreme Court, not to risk a new blockade.
The confidentiality about the authors of the funds was used by Lira and alcohubre to distribute the money according to political alliances. Those who supported them received a larger money, while those who disagree had a smaller portion or even nothing. The arc of supports included even politicians without mandate in Congress, as presidents of parties and governors.
Through these funds, Lira set up a group of party leaders aligned with him, built significant majorities to vote projects of interest and became one of the most powerful figures of the legislature. Already alcohubre remained influential behind the scenes and paved the way to return to the presidency of the Senate after four years.
How it showed the SheetMotta Allies the existence of a more conflagrated environment in the plenary and the need for the mayor to make gestures of confrontation to the STF and the Lula government to meet the opposition and centrão.
The Planalto Palace does not want to follow in this clash and the guidance is to play along with Congress in the release of these funds.
According to an assistant from Lula, since the Minister (Secretariat of Institutional Relations) arrived at the Planalto Palace, the order is that the government of the benches – to make individual dealings with the deputies and senators.
In addition, the evaluation in the palace is that the division of amendments is an internal issue of Parliament and that the government must feed out what is passed on by alcohubre and motor about these resources.
