A billionaire slice of the Government’s budget (PT) has served parliamentarians as if it escapes the transparency and control criteria imposed by (Federal Supreme Court).
In letters sent to municipalities and publications made on social networks, deputies and senators say they are responsible for the allocation of the money. The nominations are inserted in a group of transfers that exceeds R $ 2.9 billion since May, within the discretionary budget (unlawful spending) of the portfolio.
Since there is no transparency about which parliamentarians have sponsored each transfer, it is not possible to point out what is the total directed by political criteria.
In May, the Minister of Health, (PT), established by ordinance new rules for the transfers of these resources to occur in a single installment. The document is used as the basis for the transfers coveted by parliamentarians.
It denies that the health budget is negotiated by political criteria. In a statement, the ministry commanded by Padilha says he conducts technical analysis of the requests submitted by secretaries of states and municipalities and that it is natural congressmen to follow the processing of the processes.
“It is absolutely natural that parliamentarians are publicly engaged in the promotion of investments made in the municipalities, even if this does not imply any prior kind of political agreement or parliamentary indication for these transfers,” says the ministry.
Part of the offices obtained by Sheetparliamentarians warn municipal managers that the appeal is available and claim that it was necessary to register a proposal in the Investsus system of the Ministry of Health. There are also documents by deputies and senators informing that the money indicated by them has already been paid.
In recent years, the parliamentarians, such as the requirement to present political groomsmen and the creation of a specific bank account to track how each feature sent to the.
Since the extra padilla ministry transfer is not classified in the budget as an amendment, the same requirements on transparency are not applied.
The secretariats of state and municipalities of São Paulo were the largest benefited by this type of money until Friday (8), concentrating R $ 288.22 million. The Federal District, with R $ 2.4 million, is the unit of the federation less favored.
The Supreme Court Minister Flávio Dino, who reports the transparency actions of the amendments, has already questioned the government about this health budget after.
In response to him, the government said there are no “parallel commission amendments” or “new secret budget.” In the same action, Congress stated that the government’s discretionary funds undergo exclusively to the management of the executive.
Deputy Valdir Cobalchini (MDB-SC) informed on June 30 to a warm councilor from Águas Mornas (SC) who had nominated the municipality to receive R $ 271 thousand. In the same document, he said that the city should formalize the proposal to the federal government.
On July 18, the ministry authorized the transfer to Águas warm in the same amount cited by Cobalchini, in a decree published in the Federal Official Gazette.
The deputy confirmed that he is the author of the appointment and said he always informs about the transfers that he has sponsored, but did not detail how he obtained the extra amount of the ministry.
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Senator Ivete da Silveira’s Office (MDB-SC) informed councilors Santa Catarina, in other offices, that warm waters, Balneário Piçarras, Calmon and Porto Belo had received payments from it indicated by her. The transfers totaled R $ 2.3 million. Sought, she did not comment.
Documents obtained by Sheet They also show the internal discussion of the City of Canoas (RS), in May, about the accreditation of a proposal of R $ 460 thousand of “Indication of Extraordinary Resources” by Federal Deputy Ronaldo Nogueira (Republicans-RS). The money would be released by the ministry in July.
The report also located messages from an advisor to Deputy Carlos Zarattini (PT) guiding managers from Paraibuna (SP) to submit a proposal of R $ 300 thousand. The municipality, however, has not yet been contemplated.
Zarattini’s office said it only informed the procedures necessary to make the transfer viable. “The origin of values is exclusively from the Ministry of Health.”
There are also cases of municipalities that said they had not requested any support from parliamentarians, such as Araguaína (TO), which received $ 14.5 million.
In July, the mayor of Damião (PB), Simone Azevedo, said on social networks that the municipality received $ 300,000 in amendment from senator Daniella Ribeiro (PP-PB). The appeal, however, is from the Ministry’s own cash.
Sought, the senator stated that she only asked for support from the Ministry of Health for the mayor’s election, without detailing how.
Deputy Fausto Pinato (PP-SP) also celebrated on social networks, on July 22, the payment of R $ 500 thousand in “Extra Amendment” for Brotas. Sought, the parliamentarian said he believed that negotiations for the appeal were made in 2024 through the leadership of the party. “I don’t even know, because it’s going out … it takes time. I don’t talk to the government, I talk to the leader of my party,” Pinato said.
Political negotiation
Under reserve, three congressional authorities and four health secretariat managers told Sheet that the extra health appeal has entered the menu of funds that are offered by the government to meet demands of deputies and senators. They also report that, in general, the parliamentarian forwards the requests for the leadership of the party.
Two government members accompanying the transfers said, also under reserve, that the SRI (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), led by Gleisi Hoffmann (PT), defines which proposals should be approved. They also stated that there is pressure to expand the money that should be offered for political negotiation.
Current Minister of Health, Padilha commanded SRI before Gleisi. In a statement, the folder states that it only follows the execution of the amendments and that the management of the discretionary budget is an attribution of the ministries.
The use of this type of appeal in political negotiations and without transparency was a practice adopted in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) management, which is repeated.
Padilha assistants say that the ordinance that determined the transfers in a single installment was an improvement of the instrument and directed the figures to policies that are interested in the federal government, such as surgeries, accrediting new teams and active search for vaccination. The document requires that only part of the money be applied to these actions.
