Rapporteur of the proposal included in the report that 19 sectors cannot be contingent by the Executive
The rapporteur of the bill that gives the 2023 budget guidelines, Senator Marcos do Val (Pode-ES), prohibited the contingency of 19 sectors, which, in practice, limits the retention of spending by the next government.
The change was approved by Congress on Tuesday (12.Jul.2022).
Thus, expenses with:
- education;
- student assistance;
- science, technology and innovation;
- digital inclusion;
- sport;
- promotion and defense of the rights of children, adolescents, women and the elderly;
- regularization and inspection of indigenous lands;
- humanitarian reception of migrants and border control;
- public security;
- Armed Forces projects;
- Rural Insurance;
- agricultural defense;
- animal health;
- roads, railways and water and air transport infrastructure;
- sanitation;
- regional development;
- climate change monitoring;
- risk and disaster management;
- fight the covid-19 pandemic.
The rapporteur justified in what the ideal was that there was no need for the Union to adopt the limitation of programming included in the Budget.
Historically, the government applies contingency in case of risk to meet the fiscal target, which is the estimate of the difference between revenues and expenditures expected by the Ministry of Economy.
The 2023 Budget guideline expects the central government to have a deficit target of BRL 65.9 billion. The President of the Republic can be held responsible if he fails to meet this goal.
By creating a list of 19 items, Congress should make it difficult for the next administration to manage.
In addition, Congress kept in the project the section that obliges the Executive to reserve the money for the rapporteur’s amendments to the Budget, which total R$ 19 billion.
Until 2021, the Ministry of Economy did not include the expense in the Budget project. The task was left to the rapporteur of the text in Congress.
Here’s the intact of the LDO text base (17.8 MB).
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