Bill includes a ceiling for the growth of amendments following the fiscal framework

The senator Angelo Coronel (PSD-BA)rapporteur of the 2025 Budget, released, this Friday (25), the complementary bill that will bring specific rules on the distribution and execution of parliamentary amendments.
One of the points that the president’s government Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) managed to include in the text is a limit to the growth of amendments following the fiscal framework.
The text is a search for understanding with the Executive and Judiciary Powers to comply with the decision of Minister Flávio Dino, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), and seek more transparency.
The government achieved two main advantages in negotiating with Congress. The main one, which remained under discussion in recent days, was the inclusion of a ceiling for the growth of expenses in the complementary bill itself.
This was a request from the Chief Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa (PT), and his team to Senator Angelo Coronel in a meeting they had this week.
There was a fear that, to make this ceiling viable, it would be necessary to approve a proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC). Coronel decided to include this growth limit following the fiscal framework in his text.
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“The total annual amount of planned parliamentary amendments will be equal to the amount of the immediately previous year, updated by the correction of the primary expenditure limit established in art. 4th of Complementary Law No. 200, of August 30, 2023, this rule applying while the tax regime implemented by said Complementary Law is in force”, defined the senator.
Another trump card of the government was the inclusion of an excerpt that says that the “bodies executing public policies”, such as ministries and local authorities, “will indicate to the National Congress, by September 30th of the year preceding the year of the annual budget law, the programs, projects and criteria for priority assistance, with the aim of supporting the preparation of collective amendments and promoting efficiency in the allocation of public resources”.
On the other hand, Congress’s main asset in negotiations is maintaining the global value of the amendments. Throughout the negotiations, it was even considered transferring to the Executive Branch part of the resources from the committee amendments – which were irrigated with money from the rapporteur’s amendments, which became known as the “Secret Budget”.
The negative point for parliamentarians is that growth, from now on, will follow the fiscal framework’s expense growth limit rules.
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