The Chamber of Deputies resumed this Wednesday (13) the discussion of the Proposal for Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of Benefits after suspension of the session the day before due to instabilities in the electronic panel of the House.
In this Wednesday’s session, the deputies voted on the highlights presented by the parties and all of them were rejected, maintaining the basic text approved in the first round. Now the vote on the proposal takes place.
The first highlight to be voted on was that of the PT, which determined the withdrawal of the state of emergency from the PEC, an instrument that makes it legal for the government to break the spending ceiling on subsidies granted to the population.
The highlight was rejected by 361 votes in favor of maintaining the text, against 142 votes in favor of the change.
Highlight 7 of the PT was also rejected, which is the amendment to the basic text of the proposal to remove the unpredictable expression of art. 1st. This highlight refers to the fact that the increase in the prices of oil, fuels and their derivatives and the social impacts were unforeseen, and the party does not agree.
The original text, with the word “unpredictable”, was maintained by 354 votes, against 131 for the amendment.
Another highlight that was rejected was Novo’s proposal to remove the state of emergency from the PEC, similar to PT’s highlight 6. The amendment was rejected by 459 votes against and 24 in favour.
The highlight of the PSB, which requested that the period for payment of benefits of 5 months be removed from the text, with the objective of making the benefits permanent, was rejected by 338 votes in favor of withdrawal and 159 votes against withdrawal.
The penultimate highlight voted and rejected was that of the PSOL, which requested that the period of validity of the benefits be voted separately. According to the basic text, the benefits take effect from August 1st to December 31st.
Finally, the emphasis presented by PC do B, which requests the removal of the text of the R$ 26 billion limit for payments of social benefits provided for in the PEC, was also rejected. There were 349 votes to reject the highlight against 137 to approve the highlight.
After analyzing the highlights, the expectation is to start voting on the PEC in the second round, which was approved in the first round on Tuesday (12).
The basic text of the PEC had been approved by 393 in favour, 14 against and 0 abstentions, but the Speaker of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), decided to accept points of order of the opposition deputies and closed the vote, in due to the technical problems found the day before.
After closing Tuesday’s vote, Lira started a new session on Wednesday morning (13), with remote voting.
The president of the Chamber had suspended the vote on Tuesday (12) after a technical problem was found in the remote voting system starting at 7 pm.
The proposal
The Benefits PEC creates an aid of R$ 1,000 for truck drivers and an aid still without a defined amount for taxi drivers, in addition to expanding the Auxílio Brasil to at least R$ 600 per month and the gas voucher to around R$ 120 to every two months, among other points. These measures would be valid until December 31 of this year.
In addition, it grants assistance of BRL 2.5 billion until December 31, 2022 to help pay for the right to free access to the elderly in urban, semi-urban and metropolitan public transport provided for in the Elderly Statute. The amount will be transferred to the Union, states, the Federal District and municipalities.
The project also creates aid for states that grant ICMS tax credits to hydrous ethanol producers and distributors, with a total estimated budget of R$3.8 billion.
The text provides for the recognition of the state of emergency in 2022 in the country. The measure seeks to protect the federal government against possible accusations of having disrespected the electoral law.
This is because the electoral legislation prohibits the free distribution of goods, values or benefits by the public administration, except in cases of public calamity, state of emergency or social programs already in place in the year prior to the election.
When the PEC on Benefits reached the Chamber, it was attached to the PEC on Biofuels in the special commission so that it could be processed more quickly in the House, according to the government’s wishes.
The Biofuels PEC, incorporated into the Benefits PEC, focused on establishing a competitive advantage in biofuel prices over fossil fuel prices for end consumers.
Therefore, it provides that the competitive advantage will be guaranteed by maintaining the difference between the rates applicable to each fossil fuel and the biofuels that are its substitutes.
The two PECs were incorporated into a single text presented by deputy Danilo Forte (União/CE), the then rapporteur of the PEC.
Forte decided to keep the core text of the Benefits PEC as approved in the Senate, without significant changes, although he considered including more categories to receive financial aid from the federal government.
Source: CNN Brasil
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