President Lula (PT) should avoid sanctioning the, approved by Congress last week, according to government members and government parliamentarians.
Lula has until the 16th to sanction the text, but allies say that today this possibility is discarded. According to the reports, two scenarios are discussed: he does not comment on the proposal, and Congress promulgate the text; or the presidential veto to measure.
Lula does not rule out veto the proposal, according to assistants, what would happen. Nevertheless, there is a movement around the petista so that no decision is made in the heat of recent events.
Allies emphasize the unpopularity of the bill that increased the number of deputies and say that, as it is the initiative of parliamentarians, there would be no reason for the government to be involved with the theme – the risk of, by sanctioning the text, being criticized by public opinion in a moment of low popularity.
A survey released on the last day 17 showed that the increase of deputies and only 20% are in favor.
The most likely scenario at this time is that Lula does not sanction or veto the proposal. Thus, the president of the Senate, (União Brasil-AP), will have to promulgate the text.
Despite recommendations for the veto, there is a group of assistants of the president who advise this movement because of.
A Lula’s assistant told the report that by not speaking out about the project, the government avoids being accused of interfering with an internal issue of the House.
Allies recognize, however, that vetoes are the prerogative of the President of the Republic, just as the legislature can overthrow them. Thus, the evaluation of the scenario in the coming days can be decisive, according to these interlocutors.
The complementary bill increases the number of deputies from 513 to 531, with an annual impact estimated by deputies of about R $ 65 million with the costs of creating new vacancies, including wages, benefits and structure for new congressmen.
The proposal suffered e. The text returned to the House and on the same day was approved by jet by deputies, heading to the presidential sanction.
Lula’s allies remind the government to be charged for sanctioning the proposal at a time when the revision of spending and in which members of the.
Those who argue that the petista does not sanction the proposal states that the attitude could be a signage and a demonstration that the executive will not be inert in this clash with the congressmen – but without generating great crisis with the legislature.
A government vice-leader, in turn, says that the best scenario would be if Lula sanctioned the measure, in a signage to the mayor (Republicans-PB), who was one of the main articulators of the project. In the assessment of this deputy, the president would show that he complied with an expensive request from Motta.
The tension with Congress increased after the legislature overturned the IOF decree and the government filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court to try to reverse the measure. This Wednesday (2), in Bahia, Lula defended the initiative and classified as “absurd” the decision, claiming that there was non -compliance with agreement.
“The mistake, in my opinion, was the non -compliance with an agreement, which had been made on Sunday [8 de junho] At midnight at President Hugo Motta’s house. There were several ministers, deputies, the minister [Fernando] Haddad with his team and when he arrives on Tuesday, the mayor made a decision that I considered absurd, “added the petista.
The determination of the number of deputies, which varies from state to state, was proportional to the number of inhabitants measured by the 2022 census.
Instead of redistributing the 513 chairs between the states and the Federal District, which would lead part of the federative units to lose representatives, the House decided to create 18 more, contemplating those who had a population increase. With this, it was prevented that the Paraíba bench, Motta State, decreased in size, for example.
With the change approved in Congress, they should earn more vacancies in the House in 2027 the states of Pará and Santa Catarina (four each), Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Norte (two each), Goiás, Ceará, Paraná and Minas Gerais (one).
