From 2015 to 2024, they consumed R $ 173 billion more than if they had been corrected only by inflation. An appreciation that, added to the growing imposing character of its execution, led them to the center of a power cord among the three powers.
In an unprecedented attitude, the president of (Republicans-PB) even said and in a closed meeting that Congress is not untouchable and would accept to discuss a cut in the flesh.
In (Supreme Federal Court), the minister reports actions – a member that, according to parliamentarians, occurs in line with the government (), interested in recovering part of the investment amount today in the hands of the legislature.
The environment for changes in the model gained extra breath with, leveraged by the PT and the governors who had Congress as one of the main targets. Under the STF command, they also boosted the debate.
Behind the statements and public signs of Motta and Dino, however, there are variables that press for nothing to change.
Every year, each of the 513 federal deputies and 81 senators are entitled to direct funds from the Union budget to works and investments in their electoral strongholds.
Until 2013, parliamentary amendments had no imposing character, that is, the government only paid what it wanted and usually used them as a bargaining currency for congressional support.
With the political weakening of (PT) in its second term (2015-2016), the Congress began, in the management of Henrique Eduardo Alves (MDB-RN) and (mainly) (MDB-RJ) as presidency of the House, an approval movement of the obligation of the amendments.
In the Government (PL), which established an alliance with the center in exchange for parliamentary support, the values exploded, and the imposing character of execution advanced.
From a commitment (reserve in the budget for spending) of R $ 3.4 billion parliamentary amendments in 2015, which gave an average of R $ 5.8 million per congressman, the amount jumped to R $ 44.9 billion last year, an average of R $ 75.6 million per parliamentarian.
In the election year of 2026, the project of the Budgetary Guidelines Law reserves R $ 54.2 billion for the amendments – 77% of that amount of imposing character, ie, of mandatory execution by the government.
In the interview in which he made a congressional willingness to discuss changes, Motta stated that he spoke in the context of the defense of tax benefits and spending by the executive.
Last week, in a meeting with representatives of the private sector, he again manifested in this regard, but, according to reports, more forcefully about the need for this to take place in an environment of meat cuts of the three powers.
Party leaders heard by Sheet In recent days they have said that, for now, this debate does not exist in the House.
Some see in the deputy’s words only a speech to oppose the campaign of networks that Congress defends rich and privileges over the poor.
Others, that the condition itself placed smoother in the interview and more forcefully at the closed meeting is the password that nothing will change.
In Congress, the chance of a concertation that involves, for example, accepting not giving real wage to the minimum wage and detaching it from the benefits of social security, the judiciary canceling hung and the legislature giving up the power of the power with the impositive amendments is given as remotely.
On the part of the Supreme Court, in the transition from Bolsonaro to Lula, in late 2022, there was the first movement to give a brake to the current model via court decision.
The then president of the court, Rosa Weber,, the only non -impositive, but which were used by the congressional summit to obtain internal support through their distribution to parliamentarians. The decision was endorsed by the other Ministers of the Court.
In addition to the legislature’s pressure on the new government and the Supreme Court to loosen the measure, the Congress dodged the decision by transferring the funds to the commission amendments. In theory, the definition of money would be made by the thematic committees of the House and the. In practice, they continued to be distributed by decision of the parliamentarians who are part of the Congress summit.
Nominated in 2024 to the STF by Lula, from whom he is an ally and was Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino began to assume the confrontation with Congress in relation to the amendments.
Still in 2024 he ordered, in a monocratic decision, with the opening of specific accounts for each funds and the nominal identification of the requesting parliamentarians.
The decision also restricted the destination of commission amendments. On the 27th, composed mostly by critics of the current model.
In Congress, it is expected that the minister can make some new decision on the volume and imposing character of the amendments, which will certainly be seen by parliamentarians as an act of Lula made through his nominee – in this context, with the potential to expand the crisis between the powers around the subject.
