Dino approves Congress plan and releases amendments payment

Minister Flávio Dino of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Approved on Wednesday (26) the work plan in which Congress pledged to identify the deputies and senators responsible for the budget amendments and the beneficiaries of the transfers.

The minister’s decision also releases the payment of this year’s amendments and previous years that were suspended by court decisions.

Congress commitment was sent on Tuesday (25) to the minister, who is a rapporteur of the processes dealing with the transparency measures determined by the Court to pay the amendments.

Work plan

By the House and Senate Work Plan, From this year’s financial year, it will no longer be possible to commit amendments without the identification of parliamentary who made the indication the amendment and the entity that will receive the resources.

According to Dino’s decision, do not enter the release Specific Amendments for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and third sector entities that have been audited by the Union Comptroller General (CGU); Health resources that are not regularized in specific bank accounts and bench amendments and bench and commission amendments that have not been valid in minutes of the respective committees and are unidentified by the parliamentarian.

The minister’s injunction is valid, but it will need to be endorsed by the court plenary. The judgment date will still be set.

Understand

The impasse on the release of amendments began in December 2022, when the STF understood that the amendments called RP8 and RP9 were unconstitutional. After the decision, the National Congress approved a resolution that changed the rules of distribution of resources by rapporteur amendments to comply with the court’s determination.

However, PSOL, the party that filed the action against the amendments, pointed out that the decision continued to comply.

After the retirement of Minister Rosa Weber, original rapporteur of the case, Flávio Dino took over the case.

In August last year, Dino It determined the suspension of the amendments and decided that transfers should follow traceability criteria. The minister also determined that the CGU audit the transfers of parliamentarians through secret budget amendments.

Last month, Flávio Dino suspended parliamentary amendments to NGOs due to the lack of transparency.