Practically all legislative proposals approved in the plenary session in 2025 were authored by parliamentarians, shows a survey carried out by political scientist Murilo Medeiros, from the University of Brasília.
It was 90%, a jump compared to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s first term. In 2003, in the first year of that administration, the rate of articles authored by parliamentarians approved by the Senate was 59%.
Since then, Congress has gained strength before the Executive,
Another symptom of Congress’s new assertiveness is the fact that several provisional measures sent by the government lose their validity without being voted on.
According to Medeiros’ survey, 64% of them expired in the current term, while in the president’s first government, this occurred with only 4% of them.
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