Maneuver commanded by Eduardo Cunha tries to free transfers at least until elections next year; six parties advocated a share
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ) (Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP)
For lunch at the official residence of the mayor, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), deputies closed on Tuesday agreed to try to resume corporate donations to parties and candidates in election campaigns.The idea, led by Cunha itself, is that the Congressional session scheduled to vote presidential veto on Wednesday, to be included on the agenda the future veto of President Dilma Rousseff to corporate donations - and, thus, the issue can be enjoyed even tomorrow .
Lawmakers approved under the policy minirreforma, the ability of companies to make donations to parties to the $ 20 million limit, but the issue should be vetoed by President Dilma until tomorrow.
PMDB, DEM, PSDB, PP, PR and PTB agreed that will only vote the main item of vetoes, the adjustment of up to 78.5% for the Judiciary servers, the Congress President Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL) also guided the future veto to donations from companies in campaigns. The agreement of party leaders provides obstruction of voting and withdrawal of Plenum of the deputies to prevent the veto session has enough quorum to deliberate on the maintenance of the veto to the judiciary. Ultimately, they said members of the SEE site, Eduardo Cunha would be willing to convene a session of the House of Representatives for the same time of the Congress session and thereby bury the possibility of assessing the veto to the readjustment of the judiciary.
In July, the president decided to veto the increase of the Judiciary servers on the grounds that impact the expansion front battery wages with the fiscal adjustment effort taken over by the government.Approved by Congress in June, the adjustment would result in additional expenses of 25.7 billion reais in the next four years, before moving to an impact of 10 billion reais a year, according to estimates by the Ministry of Planning. The uncertainty about the maintenance or not this veto has brought instability in the financial market, who plays the Presidential Palace does not have enough interference on the allied base in Congress.
The urgency to overthrow the veto involving political donations by companies takes into account the fact that parliamentarians consider that the theme must be closed until the 2nd of October, which marks one year of municipal elections. Parallel to the eventual overthrow of the veto, senators and representatives articulate to vote as soon as possible a constitutional amendment to allow political donations to political parties, an argument that would motivate the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to rule again on the constitutionality of donations from companies .
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court held unconstitutional the possibility of companies to donate money to parties and candidates and announced that the decision is already valid for the 2016 municipal elections but the issue could return to the court decision if the court is caused after the eventual overthrow of the veto, for example.
Although the lawmakers themselves are aware of the fact approve a constitutional amendment on business gifts does not make the subject automatically valid constitutionally, the evaluation of parliamentarians is that they could buy time until a new challenge to get to the Supreme Court. In the best-case scenario, they could even take the issue of uncertainty until the next year's October elections, maintaining a legal limbo.
