The LDO (Budget Guidelines Law) was approved, this Wednesday (3), by the Congress’s Joint Budget Committee with the express obligation that the government (PT) pay before the start of the electoral period, on July 4, 2026.
The expectation is that the LDO will be voted on in the Congress plenary this Thursday (4).
the government gave in to the centrão parties by agreeing to write into law the payment schedule for amendments. The center until the middle of the year, but accepted a 65% agreement — the government proposed 60%.
The Executive considers that the 100% requirement would hamper it in managing the Budget and require cutting its own investments to prioritize the amendments. Therefore, he warned that he would veto this article if approved.
The conflict over the calendar of amendments delayed the vote on the LDO by months, which should have taken place by July this year.
The payment deadline only applies to individual and state bench amendments, the execution of which is already mandatory. These are fund-to-fund amendments and “Pix” (as special transfers are known, which have less bureaucracy when transferring to states and municipalities).
The rule, therefore, does not include amendments from the Chamber and committee committees — which serve political management with Congress and the government is no longer obliged to execute.
According to the LDO rapporteur, deputy Gervásio Maia (PSB-PB), there is an agreement made by the president of the Chamber, (-PB), with the government for a payment schedule for commission amendments aimed at health, but without this provision being registered in the law.
Deputy Cabo Gilberto Silva (PL-PB) stated that parliamentarians were concerned about establishing the calendar to ensure that the government does not privilege base deputies in paying for amendments. “My amendments, being in the opposition, are quite late,” he stated.
The LDO is approved annually and establishes the guidelines that need to be followed in the preparation and execution of the Budget.
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 government 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.
