THE BRAZILIAN FEDERATIVE PACT AND THE MAIN CHANGES SUGGESTED BY PEC 188/2019

Abstract

The Federative Pact, also known as the Federative Principle, is foreseen in the Federal Constitution of 1988, as a form of political decentralization with regard to the competencies of the members of the Brazilian Federation (formed by the indissoluble union among the Union, the States, the Federal District, and the Municipalities, as stated in Article 1 of CF/88), in fiscal and budgetary management, designating rights and duties for the performance of these entities.PEC 188/2019, known as the PEC of the Federative Pact, proposes changes and revisions to numerous constitutional provisions, which directly impact public administration, especially in the distribution of resources to finance public policies. Furthermore, several measures suggested by the government have generated divergences regarding the changes, among them the extinction of small municipalities, the new attributions of the Federal Audit Court, the creation of the Multi-Year Budget to replace the Multi-Year Plan, among others. The present article seeks to evaluate the impact of PEC 188/2019 on specific points based on a bibliographic and document review, using the inductive method.