Padilha says government will defend congressional changes in MP da Esplanada – 05/30/2023 – Politics

Minister Alexandre Padilha (Secretary of Institutional Relations) said this Tuesday (30) that the government will defend the approval of the amended version by Congress of the provisional measure that restructures the Esplanada dos Ministérios.

The text that will be voted on in the plenary of the Chamber empties the ministries of Marina Silva (Environment) and Sônia Guajajara (Indigenous Peoples), in addition to the Agrarian Development portfolio, commanded by Paulo Teixeira.

“I reaffirm that we are going to defend the report the way it is,” said Padilha at an event with the Frente Parlamentar do Empreendedorismo, in Brasília.

“I am not saying that it is the ideal report for the government, but it was a construction with the Chamber and the Senate”, he added.

According to the minister, there are points in the text that the government does not agree with. Despite this, the Planalto Palace will work for the proposal to be approved – it needs the approval of the plenary sessions of the Chamber and the Senate by Thursday (1st).

As shown to Sheetfaced with the fear that the provisional measure that restructures the Esplanada dos Ministérios will be altered or, at worst, lose its validity, political articulators of the Lula government (PT) act to keep the text approved last week in a mixed commission in the Congress.

Therefore, the government tries to save at least the content approved last week, in the face of intense pressure from leaders to impose defeats on the government.

This Tuesday, in meetings prior to the meeting with the mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), members of parties such as PP and Solidarity said they were willing to let the MP expire.

According to parliamentarians, an aggravating factor is that PSOL and PC do B deputies are studying to present highlights to the text, which could disrupt the vote.

Although ministers Rui Costa (Casa Civil) and Padilha have stated last Friday (26) that they would act in Parliament to return functions to the Ministries of the Environment and Indigenous Peoples, emptied in the commission, the evaluation of allies is that any attempt to modify the PM would increase the risk of it losing its validity.

Lira has acted to prevent the MP from expiring. The vote is scheduled for this Tuesday.

“We are talking whether or not to present a highlight to see if some adjustments are possible until the evening, but all of this, without compromising the procedure and will not have any obstruction on our part, is to vote everything tonight”, said the leader of the government in the Chamber, José Guimarães (PT-CE).

“The priority for the government is to vote on MP 1154, the report that came out of the joint commission, we already talked here today, the opinion is that we are all going to vote in favor of the report that was approved in the joint commission, because this is central for the government to approve this provisional measure, which the restructuring of the ministries to be voted on tomorrow in the Senate”, said the leader of the government in the Chamber.

The provisional measure report withdraws from the Ministry of the Environment the CAR (Rural Environmental Registry) and the ANA (National Water Agency), in addition to a series of systems, which was considered the dehydration of important functions of the ministry. Likewise, the recognition and demarcation of indigenous lands, currently in the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, go to the Ministry of Justice.

According to Guimarães, the government will analyze the presentation of highlights, but the priority is to get the proposal approved. Behind the scenes, the government knows that if it tries to change the report, it could suffer an even bigger defeat in Congress, so it will at least try to keep the text approved last week.