Information is from 340 deputies and 64 senators; Court determined accountability for 2020 and 2021
The National Congress sent to the STF (Federal Supreme Court), this Monday (May 9, 2022), 100 documents with information on resources destined by appointment of deputies and senators through the rapporteur’s amendments.
The material is sent in response to the decision of Minister Rosa Weber, of November 2021, which determined the accountability of transfers made in 2020 and 2021. The information involves data referring to 340 federal deputies and 64 senators. In all, Congress has 513 deputies and 81 senators.
Information can be accessed on here. In the menu on the left of the screen, the data is in items numbered 138 to 238.
In a demonstration to the STF, the Senate lawyer said that the House and the Chamber of Deputies had already “adopted several measures to give publicity to the nominations and the execution” of the rapporteur’s amendments. read the intact of the document (420 KB).
In December, the magistrate extended from 30 to 90 days the deadline for sending information by Congress. The Senate attorney had asked the Court to once again extend the deadline for providing the data. Rosa denied the request on March 18.
To comply with the decision of the STF, the President of the Senate and Congress, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), directly addressed all deputies and senators to indicate which rapporteur amendments they supported in the 2020 and 2021 Budget.
“Thus, it is up to this Presidency only to forward the entire amount of documentation to this Federal Supreme Court, demonstrating that the National Congress has adopted numerous measures to ensure transparency in the execution of the amendments of the primary result RP 9 (Amendments of the Rapporteur-General) , despite the lack of a prior legal obligation for the documentary record of the indications”says the Senate advocacy document.
The body stated that there was, in 2020 and 2021, “any legal or regimental obligation” that the indication of municipalities that received resources from the rapporteur’s amendments was accompanied by a document formalizing the request.
From the responses sent to the STF, there are cases of congressmen who reported not having indicated appeals from the rapporteur’s amendments.
The amendments are a part of the Budget that the LOA (Annual Budget Law) rapporteur defines the destination, but there is no proper transparency about where the resources are used and who asks for them. This type of amendment has been negotiated between deputies and senators to enable the approval of projects of interest to the government.
In December, the plenary of the STF validated the provisional decision of Minister Rosa Weber that released the execution of the rapporteur’s amendments. In all, 8 ministers voted to allow transfers provided that the criteria established by a joint act signed by the National Congress on November 29 are observed.
The change promoted by the Legislature established the obligation to identify the beneficiary of the transfer and the amounts committed, settled and paid. The act, however, was criticized for being valid only for executions made from 2022, that is, it would not identify who asked for or received payments in 2020 and 2021.
The 2022 Budget earmarked BRL 16.2 billion for the rapporteur’s amendments, an amount lower than the BRL 16.8 billion forecast for 2021. The figure is equal to the sum of bench and individual amendments, a calculation approved by Congress at the beginning of the last week. There are BRL 10.5 billion in individual amendments and BRL 5.7 billion in benches.
Pacheco said last year that there was no “formal records” with the names of the congressmen who indicated the allocation of RP9 resources in 2020 and 2021.
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