Alcolumbre sitting on change in provisional measure rite since June
At the request of Chamber of Deputies Speaker Rodrigo Maia (Democrats, DEM, of Rio de Janeiro), Senate President Davi Alcolumbre (DEM, of Amapá) has been postponing for the last six months the enactment of a constitutional amendment proposal (PEC) that defines new rules for provisional measures (MPs) in their way through Congress. The PEC was approved in June and would already be in force were it not for a stalemate caused by an amendment made by the Senate that put technicians at odds and annoyed Mr. Maia.As the proposal was approved in both houses, Mr. Alcolumbre only needs to enact the text for the amendments to become effective. The move is a bureaucratic one, but it is necessary for the existence of the law to be declared so it can be executed. As the legislation does not define a maximum term for the enactment of PECs, Mr. Alcolumbre decided to freeze it until reaching an understanding with Mr. Maia.
The reason for the disagreement is an amendment by Senator Antonio Anastasia (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB, of Minas Gerais) that changed some items of the proposal. In the Senate, the amendment was considered a wording change - it only altered the way the law is written, without changing the merit. Advised by technicians of the lower house, Mr. Maia understood, however, that there was a wider change and that the amendments should go back to the Chamber to decide whether or not to agree with them - a PEC is only promulgated when both houses approve the same content.
The arrangement between Messrs. Maia and Alcolumbre draws criticism from congressmen. "Until the new rule is promulgated, new MPs will continue to be written, creating new rules and establishing rights and obligations for all the Brazilian people. An edited MP is law on the same day, but its appreciation will be in disagreement with the rules already approved by Congress itself and whose validity cannot be conditioned to a judgment of convenience or opportunity," Senator Paulo Paim (Workers' Party, PT, of Rio Grande do Sul) said when asked Mr. Alcolumbre to enact the PEC.
In response, the president of the Senate has been saying for some time that he is seeking time on the upper house's agenda to solve the impasse. "I confess that the agenda has been very intense and I have not yet been able to schedule a meeting with Speaker Rodrigo Maia and the technical team to solve these doubts and set the date for promulgation. But, in fact, there is no...
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