The environment loses two vital organs for the functioning of the wallet; The government deputy expires on the 1st
BRASÍLIA – Minister Marina Silva, of the Environment, has lost yet another tug of war and could be left without two vital organs for the functioning of the portfolio if the report of the joint committee of the ministries provisional measure (MP) is approved.
The changes happen in an operation that should be done with the tap of a box, as the MP expires on June 1st. Members of Congress will have until Wednesday 24 to approve the opinion of the deputy rapporteur Isnaldo Bulhoes Jr. (MDB-AL) so that the project still goes to the plenary of the House and Senate. The expectation is that everything, at the latest, will be analyzed by Wednesday next week.
If the measure were to expire, the original design of the 37 ministries in force during the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would return to the structure of the period of Jair Bolsonaro, when there were 23.
The most significant defeat was the transfer of the Rural Environmental Register (CAR) to the Ministry of Management by the Minister Esther Dweck. The rapporteur has opted for an intermediate solution to the problem. Congressmen from the Agricultural Parliamentary Front (FPA) have called for the CAR to return to the Ministry of Agriculture, as it was in the Bolsonaro government.
The CAR is the mandatory electronic public register for all rural properties, the purpose of which is to collect information on holdings related to permanent conservation areas – an important weapon against land grabbing and for controlling deforestation in the country.
Another entity transferred was the National Water Agency (ANA), which, as anticipated by Estadao columnpassed to the Ministry of Integration, portfolio of Waldez Góes, nominated by Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), president of the joint commission of ministries, and which seeks to strengthen the areas commanded by its allies, such as Waldez.
ANA is an autarchy responsible for implementing the national water resources policy, providing public services for irrigation and raw water supply, dam safety, and setting standards for regulating public sanitation facilities in basis.
Marina is on a collision course with multiple government fronts. The main one is oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River. Opponent of the provision, the minister entered into controversy with Alexandre Silveira, minister of Mines and Energy, the president of Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates, Alcolumbre himself and his former accomplice, Randolfe Rodrigues (AP), who is also the leader of the government to the National Congress and asked to disaffiliate from the Network due to differences on the matter. The divergence was revealed by Estadão.
The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) recommends rejecting Petrobras’ environmental license application. Marina called the project “high impact” and told Prates.
Alcolumbre said vetoing the project is a “disrespect to the people of Amapa” and that he will fight “to undo this wrong decision”. Even some petists are against the veto.
The minister also accumulates defeats within the party. At the last Network convention, she was defeated by the group of Randolfe and Heloísa Helena and she said she left the meeting “bleeding”.
Other significant changes in the report of the joint commission concern the competence for the demarcation of the territory, which will leave the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples – inaugurated in the Lula government and commanded by Sônia Guajajara – to the Ministry of Justice, of Flávio Dino. “The Ministry of Justice will continue to carry out these trials with much more impartiality, listening to all parties,” said the rapporteur, Isnaldo Bulhões Jr.
Behind the scenes, there is speculation that Guajajara’s wallet could be completely emptied, since the Centrão is still articulating to also transfer the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples to the Ministry of Justice.
By decision of the rapporteur, other MPs that members of the PT expressed a wish to have their opinion incorporated into the Joint Committee to avoid the deadline were not incorporated. This is the case of the Council for the Control of Financial Activities (Coaf), which was transferred by an expiring deputy to the Ministry of Finance. Therefore, he will return to his initial position at the Central Bank.
Isnaldo also opted for the end of the National Health Foundation (Funasa), which led to protests by MP Danilo Forte (União-CE), defender of Funasa and former president of the institution.
He was one of the congressmen who most protested against the rapporteur’s report, which was appreciated this Tuesday 23. He and Senator Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE) argue that a second hearing should have been led by the commission, which has not happened . Danilo said who would be right about the parliamentarian ritual was the mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), due to the lack of a large debate that took place in committee. Only one hearing was held.
Lira has been fighting for some months with the president of the Senate Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) to define what the ritual would be. The ritual that came into force during the pandemic, the mayor claimed, guaranteed more speed for the approval of the measures.
The government has negotiated for at least two more MPs to follow the traditional model, before the pandemic. Alcolumbre argues that the accelerated deadline was due to the delay in setting up the commission while the impasse lasted, which only happened in April.
In a public statement, Lira said that the Senate “cannot be held hostage by Alagoas and Amapá”, referring to Alcolumbre and Senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), author of the order issue accepted by Pacheco who returned the rite to the traditional model, in joint commissions made up of 12 deputies and 12 senators.
Source: Terra
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