The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, said today (22) that, in two weeks, the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of the Precatório can be voted on in the House’s plenary. Before going to plenary, the text still needs to be analyzed by the Committee on Constitution and Justice (CCJ), this Wednesday.
“We should have the appreciation this Wednesday at the Committee on Constitution and Justice, and once appreciated, as a result, in the plenary,” the senator told reporters.
“Obviously, we would try this week, but I think it’s difficult, but we’ll try to do until next week the appreciation by the plenary of this PEC of Precatório,” he added.
The senator assessed that, with the approval of the PEC, there are ways to indicate a source of funds to make Auxílio Brasil, the government’s social program, permanent. The estimate is that the measure will allow the opening of a fiscal space of R$ 90 billion, if the text already approved by the Chamber of Deputies is maintained.
Pacheco also mentioned the possibility of updating the amounts paid. “When there is a substantial increase in prices, especially for items in the basic food basket, it is necessary to update the values of the Bolsa Família social program, today Auxílio Brasil, to reach more families and with a value of R$ 400.”
In a lecture at the São Paulo Trade Association (ACSP), in the city of São Paulo, Pacheco emphasized that the obligation to pay court orders is unquestionable and, therefore, the subject and the solution to the problem were so discussed. According to him, the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (STF) that the Union is obligatory with the payment of R$ 89 billion, surpassing the expectation of values within the Union Budget, created the need to find an alternative.
Pacheco stated that he has not yet found a consensual path for the tax reform, classified by him as the most complex that exists, because the proposals presented are open to criticism. But, in his opinion, the least criticized and most accepted so far is in relation to PEC 110/2019.
“There is still national frustration, from a country that has made pension, labor, political reforms and a ceiling on public spending. In relation to this tax reform, due to a pre-election year, with so many divergences and difficulties, and with the government not knowing exactly the path to natural difficulties for approval,” he said.
*With information from Reuters
