Senate must dismember PEC from fuels and vote on bills on the subject

The Senate summit intends to break up the Fuels PEC and accelerate the vote on two bills that deal with the subject, in an attempt to reduce the impacts on the consumer’s pocket more quickly.

In the design built by the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), the proposals that are already being processed in Congress should be taken to the plenary of the House next week.

One of them deals with the creation of a compensation fund to stabilize the price of oil and the other establishes a collection model for the ICMS (Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services).

The project that deals with the rate charged by the States was approved in the Chamber in October of last year and should undergo changes in the Senate, giving more freedom to the governors in the handling of the tax. With the possible change, the proposal will have to be analyzed again by the deputies.

In an interview with CNN on Thursday morning (10), Pacheco said he believed that there was already an environment in the Senate to move forward with the two texts.

In recent days, the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), intensified the demand to senators for the ICMS project to be analyzed.

In parallel with this movement, Pacheco pledged with allies to also speed up the processing of the PEC on Fuels, dubbed kamikaze by the Ministry of Economy.

The idea is that next Tuesday (15) the chairman of the Senate Constitution and Justice Committee, Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), announces Senator Alexandre Silveira (PSD-MG) as the rapporteur of the proposal presented by Carlos Fávaro. (PSD-MT).

With the progress of the bills, those passages that affect the Constitution must remain in the PEC, including the one establishing diesel aid of up to R$1,200 for self-employed truck drivers, and the one authorizing the Union to transfer R$5 billion to the cost of gratuities for the elderly in public transport.