Toffoli suspends $ 443.3 million blockade of MG accounts | Minas Gerais

The amount refers to loan agreements between the State and Banco do Brasil for the implementation of the Minas Gerais development program and the road infrastructure program.

Following the decision of Toffoli, the government of Minas Gerais published a note ( in its entirety below ) in which it affirmed that the measure constituted an "encouragement" for the finances public.

In the request for release of accounts addressed to the STF, the state government stated that the Union only sent an electronic communication regarding the execution of the guarantee, without giving the state the right of reply. He added that income blocking irreversibly undermines the provision of essential services.

In the decision, Minister Dias Toffoli stated that the blockade "will have a significant impact on the provision of basic public services that depend on income from constitutional transfers".

In addition to blocking the blockade of resources, the minister determined that the Union did not register the state of Minas Gerais in the delinquency records of the federal administration or did not did not withdraw his registration if it had already been registered.

The decision was taken during the suspension of the judicial hearing and can still be considered by the initial rapporteur of the application, Minister Celso de Mello.

During this first week of Romeu Zema (New), at the head of the State of Minas Gerais, the process of resumption of regular resource transfers to the municipalities of Minas Gerais. On Tuesday (8), it is planned to transfer another payment worth approximately R507 million to the mayors and mayors of the state during the first seven days of the Zema government. Faced with the unavailability of cash resources and a biliary debt inherited from the previous management, the tax authorities strive to reconcile and equalize the transfers to the municipalities and to regularize the delays. salaries of state agents. The decision, Monday (7), of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which released $ 443.3 million from the account of the State of Minas Gerais, according to the Secretary of Finance, Gustavo Barbosa, will bring a new stability of the public treasury during the month of January.