Pacheco says that the Senate will give “necessary urgency” to the PEC dos Precatórios

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), said this Thursday (4) that the House of the National Congress that he presides over will give the “necessary urgency” to the Proposal for Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of the Precatório.

“The Senate’s expectation is that, once appreciated and approved in the second round in the Chamber, we have a sense of urgency for a solution to the precatoria and a fiscal space that respects the public spending ceiling to ensure the existence of a social program, which is Auxílio Brasil“, said Pacheco.

The Chamber of Deputies approved, in the first round, at dawn this Thursday (4), by 312 votes to 144, the basic text of the PEC dos Precatórios. To be approved, the PEC needs the support of 308 deputies in two rounds of voting, and now it will be voted a second time by parliamentarians.

“We will await the final assessment at the Chamber, because there are still pending highlights and the second round. Once the work of this House is done, it will therefore be the turn of the Senate. Let’s give the PEC the necessary urgency it deserves”, he said.

Analysis in the plenary without the opinion of the CCJ

Last week, Pacheco stated that the proposal could be sent directly to the House’s plenary without going through the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ).

In an interview on Thursday (4), he reaffirmed the statement, but did not rule out the possibility of the matter being considered at the CCJ.

“When I refer to a sense of urgency, it is not necessarily in relation to the PEC, but rather the solution that needs to be given. The issue of court orders and fiscal space, the obligation to respect the public spending ceiling, and the social program that can reach people”, he said.

In the view of the president of the Senate, the PEC dos Precatório can be the instrument for that.

“Even party leaders who disagree with the PEC know the importance of complying with the ceiling rule and fiscal responsibility in Brazil. It may be that the PEC is an instrument for this, but the plenary of the Senario will assess it”.

Addendum to change the ceiling

The text of the PEC dos Precatórios proposes the installment payment of the precatório, which are debts of the public power that have already had payment determined by the Justice and, therefore, can no longer be contested and must be complied with.

For this reason, the opposition and economists have stated that the payment in installments and the consequent non-payment of part of the court-ordered debts constitute a default by the Union with its creditors.

The government claims that the measure is necessary to cushion a significant and unexpected increase in these debts: the value of court-ordered debts due in 2022 totals BRL 89.1 billion, compared to the BRL 54 billion estimated for 2021.

Subsequently, an amendment to the PEC dos Precatórios was approved, which also substantially alters the spending ceiling rule — the change was requested by the federal government to support the new Auxílio Brasil with a minimum value of R$400 per month until the end of next year.

Brazil Aid

Auxílio Brasil will be the new version of Bolsa Família, in addition to being the benefit that will have the mission of replacing, this year, Emergency Aid, the temporary benefit paid to families and informal low-income workers during the pandemic and which had the last installments paid in October.

The amount of R$400 will be temporary and will only be valid until the end of 2022, the year of the presidential election. From 2023 onwards, at first, the stock market value returns to the same values ​​as today, which is an average of R$ 190 per family.

The original plan, as Economy Minister Paulo Guedes often repeats, was to make Auxílio Brasil a social program with permanently higher values, in the range of R$300, which would be covered by the creation of taxation on dividends provided for in the tax reform of the Income tax.

However, as the reform stalled in Congress and is already considered lost, the government was left without sources of funds to be able to sanctify the permanent increase.

(*With information from Juliana Elias, from CNN, in São Paulo)

Reference: CNN Brasil

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