Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies approved six provisional measures and forwarded them to the Senate on Wednesday, allocating roughly R$1.1 billion in extraordinary credits that include MP 1351/2026 with R$330 million for GLP import support.
- The R$330 million is intended to fund an economic subsidy for imported liquefied petroleum gas so the ANP can act to reduce spikes in the price of the 13 kg cooking‑gas cylinder that reached as high as R$140 in some regions earlier this year.
- The government links the price surge to higher world oil prices driven by the Middle East conflict, rising diesel and freight costs, increases in ICMS taxes on GLP, private refinery price moves, and Brazil’s roughly 20% import dependence for gas.
- The ANP must define which agents qualify, how subsidies will be calculated, and how payments will be made, and those technical rules will decide whether consumers see lower retail prices or the funds flow to importing companies.
- Other measures in the package fund disaster recovery, housing repairs, aid for affected families and beefed up firefighting and environmental enforcement in states such as Paraná, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco and Paraíba.