SURVEY

Can deputies and senators who lost the elections indicate resources in the General Budget of the Union – OGU/2023?

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 Hello everyone, everything good? Responding to the survey we did: If deputies and senators who lost the election, can they indicate resources for the General Union Budget for 2023?

So, we are going to answer this question. First thing we need to know and understand the following. The budget is voted on in one year, for execution in the following year, then it is voted on, in one year, to be executed in the following year. It is voted on in 2021 to be executed in 2022, it is voted and approved in 2022 to be executed in 2023.

The budget law, the LOA, the Annual Budget Law, every year needs to have a budget law. She will establish how each indication of the budget will be given, from each of the parliamentarians, deputies and senators.

So, when the deputy or senator makes the nomination, in our case, for 2023, he will do so in the process of amending the budget legislation.

Then the executive, the Executive Branch presents the spending and resource input proposal to the legislature and the National Congress, deputies and senators evaluate, make amendments, amend, put pieces of propositions in this legislation and in these pieces of amendment, Amendment, he will say: – I want to put 1 million in health, I want to put 1 million, 5 million, 3 million in social assistance.

So, the parliamentarian, Deputy, Senator, establishes what he will do with that resource to which he is entitled.

This year now for 2023 the budget is 19 million and 700 thousand reais and some change, some broken, and he will say in the budget legislation that will be voted on now, now that I say, in the period between September and November of the 2022 financial year, he will establish: yes, I will send X to such and such a place, X to such and such a place, that's it.

So the author of Amendment, is the one that says where each resource goes. Which is the deputy or senator, and this year, there are deputies who will do it, they are deputies, they will be deputies until the new ones enter, the new deputies and senators who won in the election.

So they are Deputies, for now they will vote on the legislation as deputies and they are the authors of these 19 million and 700 thousand reais. So these Deputies will indicate these resources to be executed in 2023 and they are the authors. So the question is: but they lost the election, how will that be?

Well, the resource, the Voting of the legislation occurs in the previous one, so in our case 2022 and it will be executed in 2023, they will no longer be deputies, but that resource, its authorship, belongs to those deputies who were still deputies when they approved the budget legislation.

So, these 19 million and 700 thousand reais are authored, who would be, let's say, let's put it in quotation marks, the owner of that resource, is the deputy and the senator, who is no longer a deputy and senator because he lost the election. But the resource in theory is his.

So the indication that he made now, that he will make, has not yet been made Voting nor approval of legislation, it will still remain his. So what he does, he will, the smartest thing that parliamentarians have to do now is first, think about how they are going to distribute these resources, because, as they will not be a deputy, they do not have the prerogative, during the execution period, of accessing the systems of the Executive and Legislative branches to say there is that one million that I was going to send to healthcare, I am going to send 100 thousand to that hospital, three hundred thousand to Hospital X.

He will no longer be with the deputy to do this, so what he does he would have to have someone a professional who has access to the systems his password, so he has to change the password so that he can have access to the system and in the period of execution a person that he will pay or not, known to the other Deputy.

A person he will ask to follow up on these indications for him, so he continues to be an author in theory. The executive government will pay for his resource, because the budget is mandatory, it will pay this resource for him, but he will not be in the budget execution period that starts in 2023, he will not be a deputy because he already lost the election, so the monitoring execution, it becomes a little more reckless, which is why some parliamentarians make direct appointments to the institutions.

Instead of doing it generically like most parliamentarians do, a parliamentarian doesn't say that to send it to the hospital, okay, I'm going to send 1 million, he doesn't do that, he puts it in healthcare and during the execution period he goes there and distributes those 5 million that he put into healthcare he distributed 1 million to Hospital A, 2 million to hospital B and so on.

Like the parliamentarians, they lost. What they generally do, they already initial it, they already put it in the budget, in the Amendment the amount that goes to that institution.

So if you are a fundraiser, it is interesting for you to think about the following, what do I do at this moment, if you are going to raise funds now for the deputies who lost, it is possible, but you ask him to initial it so he can put it in the budget your institution does not leave loose.

Because this way he won't need to juggle a lot with the indications during that execution period, so he already establishes in the budget: Oh 100 goes to such and such an institution, 1 million goes to such and such a hospital, 2 million goes to such and such a secretariat.

So he already establishes, he initials, who will receive the resource. It's smarter than letting go as most parliamentarians do, because sometimes there is an agreement now with the leaders during the Voting of budget legislation, but when it reaches the execution period that agreement is no longer valid, the guy who would work with it will no longer work.

So that's why he leaves it loose, right? It does not initialize it, it leaves it to be defined in the application modality to be defined, which is called 99 in the budgetary legislation. And then during the execution period, he simply goes there and establishes it. So I'm going to send so much to that place, so much to that place so a parliamentarian, federal deputy Senator who lost the election can indicate resources for 2003 can and will indicate the difficulty is monitoring the execution.

Some pay attention to this, some parliamentarians and others don't and sometimes the guy who doesn't pay attention arrives the following year thinking he has total control over budget execution and he doesn't. He didn't put a password, he no longer has access to the systems because you go to the execution system, where it says how much each resource will go to each place you will change, you will prioritize, who will be the one, who will receive it later. So he no longer has that, because he is no longer with the deputy and as a senator.

So he would need someone who has access to the systems, a technician. And this coach will do this for him, but he is no longer a Deputy, he is no longer a Senator. But he has the autonomy to indicate the resource, and the resource to be executed, and, in another Counterpart we have new deputies and senators who are entering.

And it's another interesting question: Do these new deputies and senators who will enter from 2023 have a budget? No, there isn't. So, in theory, they will spend the entire 2023 without a budget and they will vote on the next budget for 2024, so they will have the next budget for 2024, of course, the executive branch often opens up extra budgetary resources to serve these parliamentarians, new deputies and senators, but that depends a lot of each perfect government so the question of this poll is there to answer.

A hug to everyone and success in your fundraising.