After a request from senators, the presentation of the text of the Transition PEC (Proposal to Amend the Constitution) – which intends to remove expenses with Bolsa Família from the scope of the spending ceiling – will be postponed to next Wednesday (16).
The budget negotiator for the transitional government, senator-elect Wellington Dias (PT-PI), informed the new date in a note released this Friday morning (12). It is through the Senate that the proceedings through the Senate will begin.
.The text of the PEC needs to be presented soon so that it can begin processing. It is from there that the changes to the 2023 Budget proposal will be made. The proposal needs to be at least filed so that Castro can incorporate more expenses in his report, even if they are conditioned to the approval of the constitutional change.
Discussions about the volume of spending that will be excluded from the spending ceiling —a fiscal rule that limits the advance of expenses to the variation of inflation— and whether this permission will be temporary or definitive have worried the financial market, due to the potential impact on public accounts and the debt trajectory.
Members of the new government team expected to finalize the text on Thursday, and Dias and vice president-elect Geraldo Alckmin (PSB), who coordinates the transition team, met in the evening with Castro and Senate leaders in the house. by the president of the House, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG).
Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP) said this morning that senators asked for more time to analyze the proposal because of other commitments.
“Many parliamentarians next week will be at the Climate Conference, the president of the Senate himself. The budget committee’s rapporteur, senator Marcelo Castro, was appointed yesterday [quinta] to make the negotiations, to receive the texts”, he justified.
Elected government wants PEC to be voted on by December 17
According to Randolfe, the idea is to vote on the proposal in the House in the last week of November, so that the PEC completes its processing in Congress by December 17th. They claim that there is enough time, since Congress has already passed the so-called PEC of the Billions in 24 hours.
“The ideal scenario points to this. There are contingencies to be resolved, which would be for the parliamentarian to delay, but I do not believe that. $600, and these Brazilians are starving today,” he said.
In addition, Randolfe said he was against the proposal revealed by the Sheet, in which downtown leaders articulated inserting a tortoise in the PEC to be able to unlock parliamentary amendments for 2022 that are currently frozen due to lack of space in the Budget. Members of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government also participate in these conversations.
“With all due respect to those who defend this, I particularly find it inappropriate. (…) Parliament itself, in my opinion, is aware that it has to be adjusted, resolved. So much so that this is the subject of debate in the Supreme Court” , he said.
The Transition PEC is considered necessary to guarantee the continuity of the minimum benefit of R$ 600 from Bolsa Família from January onwards. The expense to ensure this value amounts to R$ 157 billion. The PT also promises an extra share of BRL 150 per child up to six years of age in the social program, at a cost of BRL 18 billion.
Members of the new government prefer a permanent removal of Bolsa Família expenditures from the spending ceiling. They were even alerted by members of the CMO (Mixed Budget Committee) about the risk. The suggestion of the collegiate was to limit the measure to a period of up to four years.
On Thursday (10), the general rapporteur for the 2023 Budget, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI), said that the PEC will remove expenses with Bolsa Família from the scope of the spending ceiling.
Understand the process of the Transition PEC
The PEC should begin to pass through the Senate, where the rite of voting for a constitutional amendment is simpler. Even so, the text will not go straight to the plenary. It will first pass through the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission).
In the Chamber, the text approved by the senators would be attached to PEC 24, which has deputy Tabata Amaral (PSB-SP) as rapporteur. The measure helps to gain speed, since the normal procedure would require consideration by the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) and the special commission.
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