Impasses in Congress are dealing with provisional measures for the Lula government; see list

After two months and the middle of the government, the provisional measures issued by the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) began to process in the National Congress. Among the subjects, there are texts that organize the Executive structure, base the fiscal plan and establish social programs.

Within the Congress, the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber diverge on the procedure. While Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) defends the return of the mixed commissions to analyze the MPs, Arthur Lira (PP-AL) wants to maintain the current model.

Governors will apontaram à CNN That the current rite, without the mixed commissions, gives Lira more power and leaves her in a favorable position of negotiation with the Planalto. This is because the MPs are beginning to be analyzed directly in plenary session by the Chamber.

The political scientist Bruno Carazza says that the impasse between the presidents and the delay in the initiation of the process of the MPs presents a risk for the government’s public policy agenda.

“It is a power dispute within the Congress. But the government becomes a reference to this discussion, because its provisional measures are stopped at a decision on the process of processing. A risk for the government reveals, once again, the difficulties of Lula to coordinate the legislative process, ”he says.

As PMs are Executive rules that are enforceable by law when published. Because the texts need to be approved by the Legislative Assembly within 120 days so as not to lose effect.

Petists confirm CNN that the government is concerned about the impasse, as the time for validation of the measures runs.

As of the new government, on January 1, President Lula issued 11 provisional measures. Two of them, however, were replaced by subsequent MPs and they are no longer part of the agenda. These are the PMs 1,155 and 1,157, which dealt with Auxílio Brasil and desoneração dos combustíveis, respectively.

Check below the nine MPs of interest to the Lula government, their topics and deadlines:

For the senior researcher of the Nucleus of Studies on the Congress of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) Beatriz Rey, the MPs that organize the government structure and that compose the plan of the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, for fiscal recovery They are the biggest concerns and need to be approved “as soon as possible”.

Three of the nine measures deal with the structure of the new government. A MP 1.154 establishes a management structure, with 37 ministries; at 1,156, it extinguishes the Fundação Nacional de Saúde (Funasa) and transfers its activities to other organizations.

Já to MP 1.158 transferred or Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf), which acts in the prevention and combat of corruption, for the Ministry of Finance. Part of the opposition questioned the withdrawal of the mechanism of the Central Bank, autonomous, and allocation in a paste of the government.

Duas das MPs fazem parte do package for tax increase and tax recoveryproposed by Haddad at the beginning of the government.

At MP 1,160 it restores or vote of quality in the Administrative Council of Fiscal Resources (Carf) — allowing representatives of the Fazenda Nacional to break the tie for votes in favor of the Union. Já MP 1,159 withdraws receipts referring to the Tax on Circulation of Merchandise and Services (ICMS) from the calculation basis of PIS/Pasep and Cofins.

Fernando Meireles, a researcher at the Center for Legislative Studies of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), points out that in the absence of progress in the processing of these texts, in addition to placing them on the risk or plane of the government for the prosecutor, it impacts the sentiment of the financial market in relation to Lula’s management.

“The economic pattern is a little more serious, because it signals things for the market, it has the function of aligning expectations and providing support for the management of the economy,” says the specialist.

As MPs 1,162 and 1,164 are invited to the social agenda of the government, according to the specialists consulted. As for the first trace moving to Minha Casa, Minha Vidaespecially na faixa turned to low income, or second brand to returned from Bolsa Família, with a value of R$ 600 and additional for nuclei with dependents and pregnant women.

Finally, MP 1,161 made it possible for Lula to define Composition of the Council of the Investment Partnership Program (CPPI) — or that the minister-chief of the Civil House, Rui Costa, has risen to preside over the organ; MP 1,163 partially resumed the collection of federal taxes on gasoline and ethanol.

Impasses in Congress

A wing of senators is reinforcing the pressure on the president of the Chamber so that the same committees return. Senator Alessandro Vieira (PSDB-SE) asked to send to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) a security warrant against Lira — which acted against or returned two collegiates.

Commenting on the arm’s length between Lira and Pacheco, Fernando Meireles explains that the fact of Pacheco being the president of Congress would place him in a more comfortable position in the event of the return of the mixed commissions.

“A direct procedure in the plenary session of the Chamber gives more power to it [Lira], because it concentrates the power of the agenda and has non-plenary votes. Isso gives greater power of maneuver to negotiate with the government. In the mixed committees, there is balance, but, regimentally, the president of the Senate [e do Congresso] I had a lot of influence,” he explains.

By the current rite, the MPs have been voted directly in plenary session of the Chamber and, if approved, they will continue to the Senate. The claim of two senators is that the negotiation of the text is mostly carried out in the Casa Baixa, with the Senate only being able to cancel on purpose.

This rite, adopted during the most critical period of the pandemic to expedite the processing of materials when the meetings and sessions were only remote, continues in force.

As a solution to the impasse, part two senators suggest a Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) that changes the legislative process for MPs. The idea would be that the measures will be processed alternately between the plenary sessions of the Chamber and the Senate.

second rush of CNN, President Lula told his interlocutors that he hopes that the impasse will be resolved this month. It is with the expectation that Lira and Pacheco will meet in the next few days in an attempt to reach a political agreement.

Beatriz Rey points out that the request, in addition to working on the Executive’s agenda, prevents the government’s base from being tested. “People still don’t know the size or size of the government base. It was not possible to place the test ”, she says.

For Bruno Carazza, considering the conjuncture, the “suffering” of the government to be articulated as the National Congress seems like a tonic that the Lula government will run through.

“All this delay causes a lot of wear and tear on the government and it seems to be a trend of this new legislature. All the negotiations of the government are treated with much suffering, because the government does not have a solid base”, I concluded.

With information from Gustavo Uribe, Basília Rodrigues, Tainá Farfan, Luciana Amaral and Gabriel Hirabahasi.