The proposed amendment to the transitional constitution was submitted to the Senate this Monday, but without the 27 signatures needed to start processing it. By 21:23, only 14 senators had signed the text. PEC author, budget rapporteur, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI) said earlier that “the original idea was to format the consensus text, but negotiations dragged on.”

According to the internal regulations of the Senate, the PEC must be signed by 1/3 of the senators – 27. Only after that, the protocol is read at the plenary session of the chamber, and the proposal is automatically sent to the Constitution and Justice Commission. where it can be put to a vote in five days. There, the president of the college must determine when the evaluation will take place. The rule specifies that this occurs within a period of up to 30 days.

The internal regulations of the Senate indicate that after a peer review, the PEC is sent to a plenary session, where five discussion sessions take place, after which it is ready for voting in the first round. There are five working days of break and three debates before the second round.

To be approved, the proposal must be approved by 49 of 81 senators in both rounds.

However, since this is the result of negotiations, all these normative deadlines are already being ignored by both the PT and leaders in the Senate. It is expected that once the expected number of signatures has been collected, the PEC will be read in plenary and sent to the CCJ. By the time expected by the end of Tuesday, it is expected that an agreement will already be reached with collegiate president Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP) to steer the text operationally.

However, without agreement on this pact, as well as around the final terms of the text, the initial forecast for a vote on the PEC in the CC and in the plenary meeting this Wednesday, 30, is practically discarded. A panel discussion has not yet been scheduled, and PT members believe it could even take place this week. But the estimate in the Senate is already calculated only for next Tuesday, 6.