Representatives of the public sphere and civil society criticized the proportion and lack of transparency in payment of parliamentary amendments. The reports were heard by the minister Flávio Dino, in audience in STF (Federal Supreme Court)held this Friday (27).
The meeting brought together representatives of the three powers, but had the absence of the presidents of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), and Senate, David Alcolumbre (Union-AP).
who have argued that the imposing amendments are part of the political system.
In turn, Jorge Oliveira, vice president of – Body responsible for financial and budgetary inspection of federal public management – said the court has already produced three dense technical notes requested by the Supreme.
“TCU is doing an audit involving the country’s 33 courts,” said the minister, adding that external control and civil society are essential “for a culture of responsibility and transparency in public administration.”
In his speech, Union Attorney General Jorge Messias pointed out that a possible conclusion for unconstitutionality on the imposition of amendments can generate repercussions on state and municipal spheres.
“It’s time to overcome conflicts and build a path of peace for Brazil,” he said that he seeks institutional stability.
At the hearing, the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services reported that it prepares a portal to add information and improve the transparency of the parliamentary nomination amendments to the final destination, according to the mode of the amendment (bench, individual or special).
The meeting also had the presence and manifestations of the authors of ADI (direct action of unconstitutionality) who question the transparency, control and execution of the imposing amendments.
Jurists Rafael Ramires Araújo Valim and Walfrido Jorge Warde Júnior mentioned the existence of a “irrational financing of politics in Brazil”, made without the necessary transparency.
“We have not faced this need for resources to make politics in a transparent way, openly,” said Warde Júnior, who advocates for PSOL.
“What we have here is a union attack that is no one. There is a latent tension between harmony and independence,” he added.
Already Valim argued that the imposing form to which the They are unconstitutional and compromise both left and right governments. “What we are taking care of is this imposition that has been established since 2015, which, in our view, disfigures our constitutional system.”
The governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes (Union), said he believed that the country lacks a “closer look” at the principle of efficiency. For him, the transfers made by parliamentarians “serve much more instruments of the political management of their actors, of electoral interests”, than to the interests of the population.
The press, in turn, featured Katia Brembatti, president of Abraji (Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism), who requested the tracking of money from the amendments. “In the current scenario of parliamentary amendments, you live the ‘tracking me if you are able’, ‘” said the journalist during the hearing.
