Mônica Bergamo: PDT asks the STF to suspend the promulgation of the PEC dos Precatório

The PDT filed in the STF (Supreme Federal Court) a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality against the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) of the Precatório, enacted by the National Congress on Wednesday (8).

The proposal, which allows the federal government to pay at least R$ 400 for Emergency Assistance in December, opens up a space of R$ 106.1 billion in the 2022 Budget, of which R$ 51.1 billion will be allocated to the expansion of the social program.

The PDT, however, questions the fairness of the PEC’s processing and the purpose of expanding the budget. And asks the Supreme to suspend the effects of the amendment outright until the final judgment of the action takes place.

“The main argument of the federal government is that the change is necessary to make the ‘Auxílio Brasil’ social program viable, but that change, combined with the change in the spending ceiling correction index, will allow for an increase in other expenses in the election year”, says the caption in the action.

The party also claims that the session that approved the agenda in the Chamber circumvented the House’s regulations by allowing licensed deputies to vote.

Allied with the government, the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), relaxed some rules and issued an act to allow deputies who are traveling authorized by the Chamber to vote remotely. This benefited the plan sponsored by President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

“There is no ambience that justifies a new exceptional period open only to parliamentarians traveling abroad, in which the measure led by the President of the Chamber of Deputies denoted a clear anti-democratic bias, cooling the principles of legality, isonomy, impersonality and of the due legislative process”, states the PDT in the Direct Action of Unconstitutionality

The party is also questioning the submission of an agglutinative amendment directly to the Plenary, without going through the Special Committee.

The PEC has two pillars. One measure allows for a dribble in the spending ceiling, retroactively recalculating that limit. The other measure creates a maximum value for the payment of court orders – debts that do not appear on this list will be postponed and paid off in later years.

In the Senate, the government backed down and answered the last four points that were demanded. It accepted that the limit for the payment of court orders is valid until 2026, and not until 2036 as provided for in the previous version.

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