The National Congress reserved part of this Friday (17) to analyze some presidential vetoes. Several vetoes were overturned, adding provisions to laws passed by the President of the Republic or including all legislation previously vetoed by Jair Bolsonaro. Today’s veto overturns benefited family farmers and community health workers.
In addition to the overthrow of the veto of the Electoral Fund, others were also dropped in today’s session. Among them is the veto of a project that provided for emergency actions to help family farming. This bill, approved in Congress and dubbed the Assis Carvalho 2 Law, provided for aid to the sector until 2022. Among the measures of the law is the payment of aid in the amount of R$ 2,500 per family for producers in poverty and extreme poverty. With the overthrow of the veto, the law will be enacted.
Parliamentarians also overturned the veto of the Budget Guidelines Law (LDO) to authorize the readjustment of the salary floor of community health agents and agents to combat endemic diseases. In the Congress galleries, representatives of the category followed the vote. The overturned veto establishes that the Budget Law and the additional credits must break down into specific programming categories the appropriations destined to expenses with the readjustment of the floor of the categories.
Congress also overturned the veto on the creation of a health care plan for the Federal District’s civil police and their dependents and the veto on the regulation of the profession of dispatcher.
Unanalyzed vetoes
Other vetoes scheduled for analysis today ended up being left out of the agenda. Among them, the veto of the project that guaranteed the free distribution of tampons for low-income women, including teenagers. The veto of the emergency program for the resumption of the events sector during the covid 19 pandemic was also not analyzed. These vetoes are expected to be analyzed in February.
Some points of the veto to the privatization of Eletrobras, such as the authorization for the purchase of remaining shares of the Union by employees and former employees of Eletrobras and the use of former employees of the company and its subsidiaries by the Executive Branch, will also remain until 2022.
*With information from the news agency Câmara de Notícias
