The government (PT) gave in to the centrão parties and agreed this Tuesday (2), for the first time, to write a law to parliamentarians before the start of the electoral period, on July 4, 2026, according to five deputies and senators involved in the negotiations.
The concession occurs to avoid the obligation to pay off 100% of these amendments in the first half of 2026. The Executive considers that this would hamper it in managing the Budget and require a cut in its own investments to prioritize the amendments, and warned that it would veto this article if approved.
The centrão claims that it has the votes to overturn the veto and, but two members of the group justified the Sheet that it is better to close an agreement and avoid this clash. A war over this could have the opposite effect and delay payment, and even end up in the Judiciary.
The exact percentage, however, is still pending negotiation. The government is talking about making the commitment and payment of 60% of fund-to-fund amendments and “Pix” (as special transfers are known, which have less bureaucracy in transferring them to states and municipalities) mandatory. Parliamentarians countered, at the meeting, that they want 66% of this type of transfer via amendment.
The commitment would be included in the LDO (Budget Guidelines Law) of 2026 and would only be valid for individual amendments and amendments by state benches, the execution of which is already mandatory (but without the obligation to pay before the election).
According to four congressmen who participated in the meeting, the rule would not include amendments from the Chamber and committee committees — which serve political management with Congress and the government is no longer obliged to execute.
The vote on the LDO was scheduled for this Tuesday in the Congressional Joint Budget Committee, but was postponed again, until this Wednesday, at 2 pm. If the agreement is finalized, it would be the first time that the federal government has agreed to include, in law, the mandatory payment schedule for amendments.
The government leader in Congress, senator Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP), stated that the matter is underway, but that the legislative text remains to be constructed. “The calendar needs to comply with rules that are above the LDO, such as the complementary law that regulated the amendments,” he said, citing the contingency and blocking of amendments.
The president of the Mixed Budget Committee, senator Efraim Filho (União Brasil-PB), stated that the expectation is to approve the LDO this Wednesday, after months of delays due to conflicts over the calendar of amendments — the vote should have taken place by July. “There was a forwarding proposal very close to consensus,” he said.
The first time the payment schedule for the amendments was approved, for the year 2024, the government vetoed it and then managed to negotiate so that the matter would not be addressed by law, in exchange for a commitment to comply with the schedule by decree.
In 2025, however, the government and Congress returned to conflict over the amendments. Congressmen accuse the Executive of delaying payments, and the Executive counters that it was the parliamentarians themselves who delayed approving the Budget. The clash revived the discussion around the calendar, mainly because of the election.
With the postponement of the LDO, the government also gains a little more time until 2026. As shown by Sheetthe Executive must relax the rule to accommodate the expenses with the restructuring plan, without needing to cut its own expenses to offset them.
This year, the economic team to compensate for the larger deficit of state-owned companies, mainly due to the situation at Correios. The request to change this rule in 2026 has not yet reached the rapporteur.
