Senator Omar meets with the bench to speed up the release of resources for Amazonas

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Parliamentarians want to prevent the allocation of amendments to municipalities from being jeopardized during the election period

Brasilia DF) – The leader of the Federal Bench of Amazonas, Senator Omar Aziz (PSD), met with the other senators and federal deputies from the State, this Tuesday (21), to discuss the allocation of parliamentary amendments for the year 2024. At the meeting , Senator Omar highlighted that the bench will work to speed up the release of amendments, considering the time restriction for bidding for works in municipalities, due to the electoral period.

“The mandatory amendments, the bench amendments and the amendments that we are going to make in the budget, we will try to provide a lot of agility for the release of these resources. Next year is an atypical year and municipalities can only bid until June. It takes a significant amount of time for you to regularize the bidding for a work, often more than a year. We are going to work hard now with the sectoral rapporteurs, both in health and infrastructure”,

explained Omar Aziz.

The senator also expressed concern about the drop in transfers from the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM), another point discussed by the Bench, as the fund always focuses on investments in funding education and health. The leader of the Federal Bench highlighted that each parliamentarian will have around R$29 million in tax amendments to distribute among the state’s 61 municipalities.

Furthermore, the senator highlighted the importance of the participation, this Wednesday (22), of governors and parliamentarians from the Amazon region in the first meeting on BR-319, after the creation of a working group by the Federal Government. Omar Aziz declared confidence in the speeding up of the environmental license and the bidding for the work through the actions of the Minister of Transport, Renan Filho.

*With information from consultancy

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