Faced with the pandemic crisis with the coronavirus (Covid-19) and with the need for resources to pay ICU rates, assembly of ICU beds, mechanical respirators, hospital masks and other items necessary to combat the pandemic, citizen Renato Silva Pithon Júnior created this petition requesting the transfer of the party fund for these actions.
The author retrieves the information that, during the 2015 electoral mini-reform, the Special Fund for Campaign Financing (FEFC) was created, which allocates resources from the National Treasury to the elections. The amounts for 2020 approved in the budget were 3 billion reais. The request of the petition is to end the Fund once and for all and pass on the values for health in 2020. The campaign created the hashtag #3bifundaoparacombatercovid19 and had more than 179,000 signatures.
Seven bills dealt with the issue (PLs 646/20, 648/20, 649/20, 663/20, 664/20, 712/20 and PL 2158/2020) and had only 17 thousand demonstrations against the fund that was maintained, used in the 2020 elections and expanded for the 2022 elections, with an estimated value exceeding R$ 5 billion and support from the government bench in this approval.
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