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Secret budget trial used as bargaining chip to pass transition package

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Chamber of Deputies Speaker Arthur Lira warned members of the presidential transition team that a political action in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to declare unconstitutional the rapporteur’s amendments, known as secret budget, will disrupt the governability and may affect the approval of the so-called Transition PEC (proposal to amend the Constitution). The conversation took place first with Deputy José Guimarães in his office and also with President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by telephone.Mr. Lira told Messrs Lula and Guimarães about the discomfort with news that the president-elect had asked some justices to declare the unconstitutionality of the rapporteur’s amendments in the trial the Supreme Court started on Wednesday.Also known as the "secret budget," these amendments are a bargaining chip between the government and Congress and one of Mr. Lira’s trump cards in the Chamber of Deputies. Today, the distribution is made by the president of the Senate, by the Chamber of Deputies speaker, and by party leaders, but there is little information about who are the authors of amendments and investigations into alleged embezzlement of money.Mr. Lira told his allies he had...

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