The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), signed an agreement this Tuesday (7) to promulgate the points that are common to the two Houses about the PEC of Precatório. The information was provided by the policy analyst at CNN Thais Arbex.
“We will now announce the promulgation of the common part of the two PECs that have not changed. Including the opening of fiscal space in the budget for the payment of Emergency Aid. Maintaining the rules stipulated in the two Houses for the compensation of court orders. The issue of installment payment of the municipal social security debts, among others”, said Lira.
The measure was approved in two rounds last week in the Senate and will return to the House — where it needs 308 votes —, as its text has been changed.
According to the presidents, the points that were not agreed upon and that, therefore, go back to the Chamber of Deputies must be placed in another PEC.
“The promulgation by the two Houses will be done and all the divergent text, which was placed in the Senate, we will consider a PEC ready for the plenary, and we need a qualified quorum for the discussion and voting of the divergent texts”, he said Lira.
The promulgation of the common points should take place this Wednesday (8). The analysis of the different points in the text, which must be added in another PEC, should take place next Tuesday.
According to the presidents of the Houses, next Monday there will be a meeting of leaders to discuss the agreement for the vote on Tuesday (14).
Second Pacheco, among the items that are common points are:
- Rule for depositing any debts in the creditor’s account;
- New rules for the compensation of debts and court orders between federated entities;
- Rules for deducting amounts due in the transfer of the Union in the quotas of participation funds in federal court orders;
- Payment of court orders via loan through direct agreement with creditors;
- New rules for correction of spending ceiling indices;
- Rules pays the installments of social security contributions from the municipalities;
- Rules for the incidence of Selic in discussions and convictions involving the public treasury;
- Application of changes to the court-ordered payment system.
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At a press conference with the president of the Chamber after the agreement was signed, Pacheco thanked the “leaders for their work” and said that the meeting with Lira was “very productive”. He underscored the unanimity among leaders on the urgency of implementing Auxílio Brasil.
“The Senate approved the PEC and had a large majority of approval, very fruit of a consensus work and in accordance with the commitment of the appreciation by the Chamber of the innovations that the Senate brought. The Senate brought important and good changes to improve the text, and the Chamber should assess this now”, he said.
“All of us are very concerned about a solution to support Auxílio Brasil. This motivated us to gain insight into the alternatives we had to support the program.”
According to Pacheco, a large majority of leaders agreed on the possibility of enacting common points in the texts of the Houses.
“With that, we managed to enact the common part, guarantee the appreciation by the Chamber of innovations in the Senate and we solved the problem that was common to the two Houses, which is to support the aid”, he concluded.
In search of greater support for the approval of the PEC dos Precatório in the plenary of the Senate, the rapporteur of the text, senator Fernando Bezerra (MDB-PE), conceded in some more points of the proposal. Among the main changes in the new opinion is the linking of all open fiscal space with the sub-ceiling for the payment of court orders to Auxílio Brasil and Social Security.
The measure will be applied annually to “surplus” resources by the limit on the payment of court orders until 2026. That is, for 5 years, the new social program and the security spending have a source of funding guaranteed by the limit on the payment of court orders.
The purpose is to ensure that funds cannot be used for other expenses, such as rapporteur amendments. “Thus, all the effort made by the National Congress in the search for resources will be linked to the most urgent social purposes in this moment of crisis”, says the text.
Last week, Bezerra had already brought changes in relation to the text that came from the Chamber, such as ensuring that all open space in the budget is linked to the payment of social assistance. In addition, it established the payment of R$ 400 from Auxílio Brasil as permanent.
Then, to facilitate approval by the Senate Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ), where the text was approved on Tuesday (30), it removed the Fundef (Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Elementary Education and the Valorization of Teaching) from the spending ceiling.
These judicial debts with the states amount to around R$16 billion. Under the PEC, 40% of this amount will have to be paid in the first year.
Another important change was putting food court orders on the priority list for payment.
On the priority list for payments are those who will receive smaller amounts, up to R$ 66,000, people aged 60 or over and people with disabilities.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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