Temer is defeated in the Chamber of Deputies: urgency in the states' debt bill is rejected.

247 - The Chamber rejected on Wednesday (6) the request for urgency from interim president Michel Temer for the project that deals with the agreement on the debt of the States with the Union.

The request for urgent action received 253 votes in favor. 257 were needed.

There were also 131 votes against and two abstentions.

There were dissenting voices within the PMDB and the Northeastern caucus, who disagreed with the text of the bill. Among allies, the SDD party allowed its members to vote as they wished.

Renegotiating state debts is considered one of the main priorities of Michel Temer's government.

Congressman Silvio Costa (PT do B-PE), who is the deputy leader of the minority, stated that the result of the vote was the first "major defeat" for the Temer government.

Minority leader, Representative Jandira Feghali (PCdoB-RJ), argued that the proposal could remove prerogatives from governors in their relations with state employees.

“The conditions imposed on the states are absolutely unacceptable. You apply the same standard uniformly to all states, prevent governors from having autonomous control over their employees, and establish a spending cap based on inflation in the law, without the need for a constitutional amendment. This is the end of public health and education policies,” he criticized.

Representative José Guimarães (PT-CE) stated that the government wanted to approve the urgency for a text that wasn't even ready yet.