O plenary of the Federal Senate must vote, this Tuesday (25), a “bomb agenda”. O PLP (Complementary Bill) which deals with differentiated retirement for community agents health and combating endemic diseases, has an estimated budgetary impact on billions of reais.
The item, which displeases the Lula government, was included on the plenary agenda shortly after the appointment of the Union’s attorney general, Jorge Messiasto the STF (Supreme Federal Court).
O, who called for the choice of senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) to fill Luís Roberto Barroso’s seat on the Court.
The inclusion on the agenda this Tuesday (25) was interpreted as a message to the government of Alcolumbre’s dissatisfaction. The matter raised an alert at the Ministry of Financewhich led the executive secretary, Dario Durigan, to appeal to Congress not to approve the matter.
“I make an appeal here. This bill on community health agents has a very large impact on public coffersit is very bad from an economic point of view. It should not be approved in a context other than a major discussion, in which we have accounts on the table and evaluate the impact,” Durigan said at a press conference.
PLP nº 185/24 is authored by senator Veneziano Vital do Rêgo (MDB-PB) and has already passed through the Economic Affairs and Social Affairs committees and is ready for voting in the plenary.
According to the text, if 20 years of effective exercise of activities inherent to the position of community health agent or agent to combat endemic diseases are proven, men will be able to retire at 52 and women at 50.
In October, the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies approved a PEC (proposed amendment to the Constitution) with similar content. The text was then sent to the Senate, but was not forwarded by Alcolumbre.
The rapporteur of the matter that passed through the Chamber, Antonio Brito (PSD-BA), presented an estimated impact of R$5.5 billion by 2030, therefore, less than R$1 billion per year.
