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30/05/2012
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Amanda Cieglinski
Reporter Agency Brazil
Brasilia - The vote on the bill that creates the new National Education Plan (PNE), scheduled for days (29), was postponed to day (30). The official start of the meeting was delayed an hour due to lack of quorum and the proposal rapporteur, Mr Angelo Vanhoni (PT-PR), spent the rest of his time reading the supplementary vote, built after the presentation of 157 amendments to the final report matter.
Behind the scenes, parliamentarians and members of civil society organizations said that the goal of postponing the vote was delayed so the government has thus time to unite the votes of members of the base for the report of Vanhoni.
The most controversial point is still the target of investment in education. The report predicts that within ten years, extending the funding in the area to 7.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - is currently invests 5.1% of GDP on education. This is the limit negotiated with the government. However, part of the parliamentary special committee that looks at the PNE and civil society organizations are pushing for this index is revised to 10%.
"The foundation is cracked, so they are delaying the vote," said Daniel Cara, general coordinator of the Campaign for the Right to Education, an organization that has made several amendments to the project and work with lawmakers to approve the level of 10% of GDP.
The chairman of the special committee, Lelo Coimbra (PMDB-ES), said the vote should only complete the second week of June. Tomorrow, still reading the report and vote, in practice, begins on June 12, since next week is a holiday.
"The vote is in progress. There is a concern that is proactive because it echoes so that the theme of 10% of GDP is thorough, and the government also is behaving this way. That's good, "said Lelo. At the end of the session, Vanhoni said it was "no conversations" taking place on the goal of financing and that "something new can happen in the coming days," implying that the government can increase the limit it had set a maximum investment 7.5%.
Mrs Dorinha Rezende (DEM-TO) described the meeting as a "bullshit" because the government did not want the approval of NLP today. "The government had no time to organize their base. Everybody saw that it was bullshit to not vote because, in fact, they go after the party leaders to try to frame the deputies, "he said.
Dorinha pointed out that when the previous NAP, which lasted from 2001 to 2010, was voted by Congress, members of the PT that are now part of defending the base level of 10% of GDP for education. "The government will have to show what is the consistency. PNE in 2001, introduced amendments to the PT 10% and who had been defending himself Aloizio Mercadante, the current Minister of Education, "he said.
PNE earlier had targeted investment of 7% of GDP on education, but the item was vetoed by then-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Edition: Lana Cristina
Source: Agency Brazil
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