The Presidents of the Republic, the Senate, the Chamber, the TCU and the STF report the approval of exceptional laws and PECs that help the State affected by the heavy rains
OR President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) entered the field to ensure a political climate favorable to the adoption of extraordinary measures that help the Rio Grande do Sul, Been hit by heavy rain. There have already been 75 deaths due to the floods. According to the president, the crisis between the powers seen in recent days is on the verge of being suspended. The goal is to create a extraordinary legal regime which eliminates bureaucracy and facilitates the sending of resources from the Union to the government of Rio Grande do Sul.
On Saturday evening, the 5th, Lula personally called the presidents of the House, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU), Bruno Dantas, and the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Luís Roberto Barroso, and invited them to join the presidential delegation that visited Rio Grande do Sul this Sunday . Since he was abroad, Barroso chose the vice-president of the STF, Edson Fachin.
“From a legal point of view, the adoption of a special and emergency legal regime, transitional with respect to this climate catastrophe, can provide the necessary authorizations, especially legislative, so that judges, when called upon or take initiatives, interpret the Constitution and the laws by exceptionalizing some limits that are not compatible with this climate emergency”, Fachin, in Porto Alegre.
Rio Grande do Sul’s billions of dollars in debt to the Union is also subject to exceptionalisation, as the president himself has pointed out. “OR [ministro da Fazenda,] Fernando Haddad is very sensitive to the debts of the States towards the Union. I hope that he reaches an agreement with the states soon, because he doesn’t make sense that the states have no investment capacity. I know that Rio Grande do Sul has a difficult financial situation,” Lula said alongside the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Eduardo Leite (PSDB).
Federal deputy Zucco (PL-RS) sent a letter to Haddad requesting the suspension of the payment of Rio Grande do Sul’s debt to the Union for a period of two years.
During the visit to Porto Alegre, Pacheco assured that he and Lira will define which laws and proposed amendments to the Constitution (PEC) can be voted on in Congress to allow the release of resources and parliamentary amendments to be made with legal certainty. Lira has already called a leaders’ meeting to discuss the issue.
“There is a profound need for Union, beyond political, party and ideological differences, because the problem of Rio Grande do Sul at the moment is the biggest in national life”, stated the president of the Senate, as a sign of armistice with the federal government on the issue of exemption from municipal payrolls, suspended by the Supreme Court at the request of the Palácio do Planalto.
A meeting that will take place on Monday 5th with ministers Alexandre Padilha (Institutional Relations) and Fernando Haddad (Treasury) and the president of the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM), Paolo Ziukolskito discuss a compromise on tax relief for municipalities, was suspended due to the federal government’s focus on the Rio Grande do Sul crisis.
In his speech, the president of the TCU added that legal barriers must be suspended to help Rio Grande do Sul “We have all the zeal to monitor the use of public money, but we are sensitive in knowing that in exceptional moments we must use rules more flexible,” said Bruno Dantas. “In normal times we need to apply bureaucracy, but in serious moments like this we need to focus on defending the population.”
Lula also instructed the Minister of Transport, Renan Filho, to help the governor of Rio Grande do Sul to rebuild the state roads destroyed by the rains, and not just the federal ones.
Source: Terra
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