The National Congress is studying to transform the rapporteur’s amendments into impositions. In practice, the measure would force the Executive to pay them. Today, only individual parliamentary amendments and those of benches are imposed.
The debate today is being held behind the scenes of the Joint Budget Committee and was confirmed to the CNN by the general rapporteur for the 2023 Budget, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI).
“Yes, there is this conversation in the commission. I can confirm,” she said. However, he said he was against the idea. “What we have are individual amendments imposed by constitutional amendment. And imposition of bench amendments by constitutional amendment. It is not possible to make the rapporteur’s amendments binding by constitutional amendment,” he declared.
If the measure is approved, it would prevent the President of the Republic from having room for maneuver over these resources. This is because the rapporteur’s amendments ended up giving the National Congress the power to direct where they should be applied.
This year, the rapporteur’s amendments reached R$ 16.5 billion and was shrouded in controversy due to the lack of transparency and the political use of resources to privilege allies of the Palácio do Planalto.
The leader of the polls, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), has been critical of the model. The PT even internally debates alternatives to the process.
Behind the scenes, technicians and parliamentarians told the CNN that it is possible to make the rapporteur’s amendments binding through an amendment to the Budget Guidelines Law. Without, therefore, the need to approve an amendment to the Constitution. There would even be a precedent: individual amendments became mandatory in the 2014 LDO and only in 2015 did the Constitution provide for their imposition through a constitutional amendment led by the then Speaker of the Chamber, Eduardo Cunha.
The LDO’s preliminary report was approved on Tuesday, but if the idea succeeds, an amendment would be presented determining that the rapporteur’s amendments are binding. The deadline for submitting amendments began this Wednesday and runs until June 23.
The president of the Joint Budget Commission, Celso Sabino, (União Brasil-PA), said he was against the idea. For him, this would only be possible through a proposal for a constitutional amendment. He defends, however, that provisions be included in the LDO to give more transparency to the rapporteur’s amendments.
“We intend to open the rapporteur’s amendments. Give full light to the whole process and allow everyone to follow the whole process. From appointment to execution,” he declared.
Sought, the LDO rapporteur, senator Marcos do Val (Podes-ES), did not manifest.
Source: CNN Brasil

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