Government’s bid to make room in the Budget and thus finance the new social program Brazil Aid, which will replace Bolsa Família, the PEC dos Precatório was approved in the Chamber of Deputies and proceeded for consideration by the Senate. The proposed amendment to the Constitution is the target of intense negotiations in Congress.
The text changes the way in which the spending ceiling is calculated and raises fears of a possible lack of control in public accounts. The discussion also involves the use of amendments to the Budget as an instrument for the government’s articulations in an attempt to win the support of deputies and senators.
In this episode of and there is more, Carol Nogueira presents a balance of the vote of the PEC of Precatório in the Chamber and describes the doubts about the future of the text in the Senate. To point out the possible impacts of the proposal on the management of public accounts, the policy analyst from the CNN Gustavo Uribe and the political scientist and economist Glauco Peres da Silva, a researcher at Cebrap.
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(* Posted by Diego Toledo)
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