Government reaches agreement on sanitation decree to avoid defeat in the Senate

The Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, announced this Tuesday (11) that the government has reached an agreement with Congress and should prepare a new decree on the legal framework for sanitation. Padilha met with the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), to discuss the issue.

After the negotiation, Pacheco withdrew from the agenda the draft legislative decree that suspends excerpts from the decree of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) on sanitation. In May, the plenary of the Chamber imposed a defeat on the government and approved the overthrow of parts of Lula’s decrees.

“We made it clear that the government is accepting points that were questioned by Congress in relation to the sanitation decree. We are going to work so that the new decree comes out this week,” said Padilha, reported the newspaper O Globo.

The meeting was attended by senators Jaques Wagner (PT-BA), government leader in the Senate; Randolfe Rodrigues (AP), government leader in Congress; Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), leader of the opposition; and Confúcio Moura (MDB-RO), president of the Infrastructure Services Commission.