The federal deputy (-Al) questioned the legitimacy of the (Supreme Court) to decide budgetary issues during participating in the panel on “constitutionality control and separation of walls” in the Lisbon Forum, on Thursday (3).
For the deputy, Brazil “lives a tension as a few times has been seen in our history”, going through a “challenge of democratic legitimacy” regarding the judiciary’s performance in budget issues.
The statement occurs at the time the Lula (PT) government sent to the STF Action (Tax on Financial Operations) overturned by Congress and amid tensions of the Legislature with the Court due to.
“Judges, with all due respect, enjoy almost vitality, do not compete for elections, are not available to the ballot box every four years. They do not have the popular mandate that legitimates decisions about resource allocation,” Lira said in Lisbon.
“When the judiciary is determined, monitor budgetary execution of public policies, inevitably enter the domains reserved for the executive and the legislature,” said Lira.
The parliamentarian stated that doubts about the judiciary’s technical capacity to act in these matters are valid, as it is necessary to distinguish what is from interest to the population.
“Our budget does not fit everything and it is up to those who have been elected distinguish, choose. Because if, if you choose wrong, the population removes it from the polls. What to do if, with all due respect, the Supreme Court prioritizes theme A, B or C or D? A Judge, is not elected in the ballot box.”
Lira recalled the time when he presided over the House, when a PEC (proposal for amendment to the Constitution) to block monocratic decisions of the judiciary. According to him, the text did not advance because “that debate was not mature, was being put in a polarized way, it would not add anything.”
Still, he said it is not fair that a decision that received hundreds of votes in the House or dozens in the Senate is overthrown by a often monocratic court decision.
The deputy ended by saying that Congress also needs “a broad political reform” and that dialogue between the three powers is needed. “The solution to all these discussions of structural actions has to go through prior discussion dialogues so that, when put into practice, they have the applause and recognition of all.”
