Half of the budget funds blocked by the federal government for this year (R$ 1.5 billion) correspond to the Ministries of Health (R$ 452 million) and Education (R$ 333 million), according to a presidential decree published last Friday (28), in the Official Gazette of Unity.
The Executive's justification for the blockades – of a temporary nature, but which affect ten portfolios – is that the estimate of expenses would have exceeded the limit established by the rule still in force, the ceiling of spending.
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According to the decree, such spending contingency does not include those that are mandatory, but only those discretionary (non-mandatory), which refer to investments and those aimed at machine maintenance public. To be released again, it is necessary that estimates of mandatory expenditures do not confirm or approve the new fiscal framework by the National Congress, replacing the ceiling of expenses.
Before this blockade – already foreseen in the Bimonthly Report of Evaluation of Revenues and Expenses, on the 21st of this month – Planalto had already made another, last May, in the amount of R$ 1.7 billion, covering the ministries of Farm; Planning; Integration and Regional Development; Development and Social Assistance, Family and Combating Hunger; Transport and Cities.
It is up to the Budget Execution Board – formed by the Ministers of Finance, Fernando Haddad; from Planning and Budget, Simone Tebet; Management and Innovation in Public Services Esther Dweck; and from the Civil House, Rui Costa – the distribution of the contingency of resources.
Even so, this year's contingency is still lower than the total blocked in the Budget last year, of R$ 15.38 billion, in order to comply with the spending ceiling device. In this case, the resources were only released because the Constitutional Amendment of the Transition removed from the ceiling BRL 23 billion referring to social programs in 2022, not counting another BRL 168 billion this year.
According to specialists, both expenses and investments in public education in the country have been falling since 2016, which opens up a perspective of slow recovery for the sector.
According to the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep), in 2020, public investments in the area of Education will not went from 5.4% in 2020, when these should already be at 7%, according to the targets of the current National Education Plan (PNE), until reaching 10% of GDP in the year next.
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