The Federal Supreme Court (STF) will now resume its judgment on the amendments made by the rapporteur for the Union’s General Budget, a practice known as secret budgeting. The process is the result of actions of unconstitutionality filed by the PSB, PSOL, PV and Citizenship parties.
The subtitles allege that the lack of identification of the author of the amendments and the beneficiaries of public resources violates the principles of transparency, publicity and impersonality provided for in the Constitution.
The trial began on the 7th of December, when there was only oral support from the interested parties. Representatives of PSOL and PV, for example, claimed that the secret budget is an arbitrary practice and without socioeconomic criteria, which would configure, according to the legends, an illicit scheme to buy political support in the National Congress.
Representing the Executive, the Advocate General of the Union, Bruno Bianco, considered that the practice is an internal matter of the Legislative, that the transparency control instruments have been improved and that there is no impediment to the rapporteur’s amendments in the Magna Carta. The attorneys general of the Senate, the Chamber and the Attorney General’s Office also defended the secret budget in the last session.
The rapporteur for the action is Minister Rosa Weber, current president of the STF. She is the first to vote on the merits of the matter, which may or may not be followed by the other ten court ministers. The session starts at 2 pm.
