Weekly Report - 13 December 2012 (WR-12-49)

Federal representatives representing Brazil’s 23 non-oil producing states easily won approval in a tumultuous parliamentary session on 12 December for a so-called ‘urgent request’ to analyse President Dilma Rousseff’s red line vetoes over the congressionally modified and approved new legal framework for the distribution of oil royalties between producer and non-producer states. In all, 348 deputies and 60 senators voted in favour of the move, which propels the issue to the very top of the parliamentary agenda  - leapfrogging the more than 3,000 other vetoes long since pending votes in Brazil’s notoriously unproductive parliament - while only 84 deputies and seven senators voted against it.

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