The president of, (-PB), defined that each deputy can direct the payment of R $ 11 million in commission amendments, funds distributed by the congress collegiate.
With this movement, he uses the resources to try to reinforce the support he has in the Plenary of the House, as did his predecessor, the former president (-al).
With the determination of Motta, each parliamentarian can sponsor the additional value, in addition to the R $ 37 million to which he is entitled to the form of individual amendments. The figure of R $ 11 million was confirmed by six parliamentarians heard by Sheet.
In practice, deputies will send to the commissions an indication of how the R $ 11 million should be spent. Each collegiate will then have to vote and register these choices in minutes. The House Health, Sport and Tourism committees have already informed parliamentarians the opening of the registration for the nominations, but the deadline has not yet been informed.
In addition, the leaders of each party and Motta himself will be entitled to distribute even higher values in commission amendments. This number is kept confidential by the chamber summit. The amount sponsored by each leader depends on the size of his bench and, in previous years, exceeded $ 100 million.
Parliamentary amendments are a form of deputies and senators to direct resources to their electoral bases, which usually yields political dividends and votes.
Individual amendments (total of R $ 19 billion for the House in 2025) and state bench amendments (R $ 14 billion) are mandatory by the government. Commission amendments are not imposing, which means that the release of resources depends on the government.
This discretion of payment is traditionally used as a bargaining chip to obtain support from congressmen. Those who are faithful in voting are contemplated by the release of funds, while those who oppose or differ from the summit may have the money dammed. In 2025, these commission amendments will represent R $ 10.5 billion.
During the government of (), and in part of the government, the authors of these commission amendments were under confidential and only the summit of Congress itself were aware of the value that each parliamentarian received and how it would be spent. This format was previously used with the budget rapporteur amendments, declared unconstitutional by 2022.
Commission amendments replaced the rapporteur amendments in 2024, but were, until transparency and traceability rules were adopted for the resources, in the face of following police operations to investigate money deviations and irregularities.
Now, with the end of secrecy, Motta and the president of, (-AP), will depend on an alignment with the government to coordinate the release of resources according to their nominations.
Until last year, this negotiation caused Lira to conflict with the then responsible for the funds in the government, the former minister of SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations).
Two President Lula interlocutors say that for now there is no agreement on the payment of these funds. They also point out that, amid conflict with Congress around tax increases, it will be necessary to evaluate how this scenario is and if the environment with the House and Senate will be positive for it.
The warning of the $ 11 million per deputy began to circulate this week among the parties. There is still no information on the scope of the distribution of money or if everyone will be contemplated with these values, including parties that usually criticize the amendments, such as and new.
The sharing of the money to the deputies goes against signs, sent by Motta in recent days, that the House is willing to restrict this type of payment to contribute to the adjustment of public accounts.
On Friday (4), the mayor said that as part of the “collaboration” of the legislature.
“Just as we are here advocating tax benefits, we have to discuss amendments cut, waste cuts, public money spending by the executive. Everyone has to make their contribution. I don’t defend an untouchable congress, I don’t advocate untouchable parliamentary amendments,” he told CNN.
