The (Federal Supreme Court) should not interfere with the decision of the federal from 513 to 531, according to five court ministers and advisors.
The mayor, (Republicans-PB), consulted ministers of the Supreme before taking the bill to complement the vote in the house. According to reports made to Sheethe received endorsement for the changes.
The assessment is not that the choice of the total number of deputies is an assignment of Congress itself. The Constitution defines only that the chairs are distributed proportional to the number of inhabitants of each state, with a minimum of eight and a maximum of 70 per unit of the Federation.
Congress decided to increase the number of federal deputies after the Supreme Court defined, in 2023, that the Legislature should redistribute their chairs according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) data.
The Supreme pointed out that the Constitution foresees that the House must adjust the total number of representatives, as well as their distribution by states, always in the year before the elections.
It turns out that Congress approved a complementary law in 1993 establishing the number of 513 deputies and never again made the periodic review required by the Constitution.
Provided in action brought by Pará, the Supreme Court saw in this case an “unconstitutional omission in offense to fundamental political law to the suffrage of the populations of the sub-present states and, therefore, to the democratic principle.”
Congress worked with two possibilities to meet the demands of Congress. In one of the scenarios, the number of parliamentarians would remain, with a reduction in the number of deputies from the states of Rio de Janeiro (4), Paraíba (2), Bahia (2), Piauí (2), Rio Grande do Sul (2), Alagoas (1) and Pernambuco (1).
The victorious proposal, however, established that no state would have a reduction in the number of deputies. Therefore, he decided to make the adjustment by fattening the House Plenary with 18 more parliamentarians.
The states of Pará (4), Santa Catarina (4), Amazonas (2), Mato Grosso (2), Rio Grande do Norte (2), Goiás (1), Minas Gerais (1), Paraná (1) and Ceará (1) were representative.
There are in the offices of auxiliary ministers who advocate a restrictive interpretation of the STF’s decision. From this perspective, Congress should make the adjustment in representativeness by observing the conditions already established in the legislation in force that established the number of 513 deputies.
The majority understanding of the Supreme, however, supports the decision of Congress. STF ministers heard by Sheet It is said that the attribution of establishing the number of federal deputies is up to the legislature, by complementary law, as provided for in the Constitution.
The only fear is with the indication that the House refuses to reduce state chairs – which can create new problems of representativeness in the future, with successive increases in state benches.
The new composition of the house will cause a ripple effect on legislative assemblies. The number of state deputies is calculated based on the representativeness of states in Brasilia.
The change approved by Congress will expand the number of state deputies from 1,059 to 1,089.
The states of Amazonas (6), Mato Grosso (6), Rio Grande do Norte (6), Pará (4), Santa Catarina (4), Ceará (1), Goiás (1), Minas Gerais (1) and Paraná (1) will be added.
The complementary bill was approved by the House in May, for a large advantage. There was no great resistance to the theme.
The house articulated on Wednesday (25) a change in the text to placate the opposition. The change aimed to reduce public spending with the increase in the number of deputies.
The final version of the bill established that the House, despite the increase of deputies, will have to maintain the value of the expenses of this year’s house, such as parliamentary quota and cabinet money.
The annual impact estimated from R $ 150 million to R $ 95 million with this. The only financial impact will be related to the salaries of the new 18 federal deputies and 30 state deputies.
The complementary bill underwent jet votes in Congress on Wednesday. The rush was because the decision of the Supreme established June 30 as a deadline for the change in the composition of the House.
If the text was not approved in time, it would be up to the (Superior Electoral Court) to redistribute the chairs of the House – in tuition the 513 vacancies. The case may return to the Supreme if any state party or government between an action.
