Alternative the PEC provides precatório outside the ceiling and assistance to 21 million families

The trio of senators who are studying alternatives to the PEC of Precatório approved by the Chamber presented the leader of the government in the Senate and rapporteur of the proposal in the House, Fernando Bezerra Coelho (MDB-PE), a new text that removes judicial debts from the spending ceiling and provides assistance to 21 million families with a monthly benefit of R$400.

In all, the new social program would cost R$99 billion. According to senators Alessandro Vieira (Cidadania-SE), José Aníbal (PSDB-SP) and Oriovisto Guimarães (Podemos-PR), this expansion of the Auxílio Brasil program, successor to Bolsa Família, would be achieved with the total removal of the precatories of the spending ceiling, totaling R$89 billion.

Of this fiscal space, around R$25 billion would be used for budget corrections related to social security expenses. The balance of R$64 billion would be added to the R$35 billion already reserved for Bolsa Família in the 2022 budget bill (PLOA), resulting in a total of R$99 billion for the social program.

In the government’s proposal, the fiscal space estimated at R$ 91.6 billion – or R$ 93 billion, according to the senators’ calculations – would be consumed not only with Brazil Aid (R$ 47 billion) and the correction of Social Security expenses ( R$25 billion), but with other expenses promised by President Jair Bolsonaro, such as exemption from payroll, diesel allowance, rapporteur amendments and salary readjustments for civil servants, in a total estimated at R$21 billion.

According to the rapporteur of the PEC, Senate Fernando Bezerra (MDB-PE), the suggestion will be analyzed by the government. “Everyone agrees to reinforce benefits for social assistance, but the way to create fiscal space has concepts that are different. And that is what we are going to analyze from now on”, said the senator.

Rapporteur Amendments

The senators’ proposal also intends to extinguish the rapporteur’s amendments (RP9), whose execution is suspended by decision of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), in addition to the amendments proposed by Congress commissions (RP8), which have no constitutional provision, according to the trio of parliamentarians.

Bezerra said, after a meeting with Vieira, Aníbal and Guimarães, that there will be a new round of talks this Thursday morning (18th), but added that, for the government, the rapporteur’s amendments should not be discussed at the PEC.

The government leader in the Senate believes that there was progress in the talks, as there is a majority understanding in the House in favor of expanding the federal social program. However, Bezerra observes that there is a “distance” in relation to the total discharge of the court orders in 2022 – the government defends the installment payment stipulated by the Chamber.