First joint session of Congress will analyze 26 vetoes by the Bolsonaro (PL) and Lula (PT) governments.| Photo: Bigstock

The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate hold, this Tuesday (18), the first joint session of the year in Congress to analyze 26 presidential vetoes involving, among others, topics such as the 2023 budget and the classification of crimes against the Democratic State of Right after the repeal of the old National Security Law.

In one of them, 46/21, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) vetoed the section that typified the crime of mass misleading communication with a penalty of up to five years in prison. Discussion of the text surfaced again after the acts of January 8 and the establishment of the so-called “fake news inquiry” at the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

Another veto to be analyzed (5/23), already by the current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), refers to the Annual Budget Law (LOA) of 2023, in which the identification of resources obtained with the Furnace PEC was vetoed. roof. Lula said, at the time, that the veto was necessary to facilitate the application of the money.

According to the Planalto Palace, the text approved by senators and deputies would cause “an increase in rigidity and inefficiency of the budget allocation process”.

Also among the vetoes analyzed are the easing of rules in the airline industry, such as the return of gratuity for checking baggage on flights established in an amendment approved by the Chamber; the demand for documents considered non-essential for the private sector to operate railroads; discounts for reducing up to 99% of student debts with the Student Financing Fund (Fies) not computed in the income tax calculation basis, among others.