Senators hope to recover powers considered lost since the beginning of the legislature in a rearrangement of forces between and from the departure of the presidents (-al) and (-MG).
The willingness to face the House was one of the points that (-AP), elected president of the Senate on Saturday (1st) with the third largest score in history, having 73 of the 81 votes.
Research, parliamentarians claim that alcohubre temperament is completely – commonly described as diplomatic, conciliatory, appeasing and dialogue.
The assessment is that the profile change also happens on the side of the House, with the new president, (-PB), that the predecessor, Lira.
The wear and tear between the two houses he gave to federal deputies the final word about most projects in process.
Prior to the maneuver, measures presented by the senators were revised by themselves after the vote in the House. From the change, the Senate proposals were attached to similar ones of the Chamber – which, in practice, changed the initiator and, consequently, the reviewer.
One senator who preferred not to be identified stated that one of the possibilities is also to edit the Senate’s bylaws to tensize the situation and force the House to review the change headed by Lira.
Motta allies minimize possible friction. They claim that Paraíba is a pacifying politician and bets that the good relationship between him and alcohubre will avoid any kind of noise between the two houses.
Federal deputies say that Lira and Pacheco had a strictly institutional relationship and that the proximity – to the personal scope – of the new presidents may distemance the climate with the senators.
A cardinal from the House Center states, however, that the house will not give up prerogatives won in recent years. He says he bets on dialogue and negotiation between parliamentarians and that institutional respect between senators and deputies will always be maintained.
Although it reached another level in 2024, the internal fight has been dragging on since 2023, when Lira tried to change the to ensure that the camera always stayed with the rapporteur and the final word.
To try to calibrate the influence of Congress on the measures issued by the President of the Republic, the Constitution provides that the discussion of each MP be made in a mixed temporary commission, with the rapporteur distributed alternately (sometimes a senator, sometimes a federal deputy).
During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, the MPs were voted directly in the plenary of the two houses, starting with the House, and without committees formed by deputies and senators.
Alcolumbre spoke openly about the ongoing war behind the scenes. “It is not and will never be correct a unilateral decision of a bicameral power, end up taking the autonomy and authority of the Senate,” he said.
The senator stated that the distance between Pacheco and Lira divided Congress and led to the weakening of the legislature. Alcolumbre discussed the impasse around the MPs and promised to “restore the natural course of things”.
“This concretely disrupted a lot because it forced the executive branch and the government, which had important articles in which it was up to the edition of provisional measures, to deal with the House first to request whether to send a bill under an urgent basis “, he said.
“The Senate was called not to be heard, not to give their opinion […]. We were called 45 minutes into the second half and an appeal was made for us to vote straight into the plenary with a plenary rapporteur, a very relevant matter. “
Provisional measures have immediate effect and, therefore, are considered important to the federal government – which do not need, at first, the endorsement of Congress.
The lack of agreement between the two presidents on the subject was harshly criticized by Lula’s allied parliamentarians, given the damage caused to the impasse.
Now, governing deputies believe that this rite can be reestablished with the new command of the houses. .
Even with the loss of Senate powers, Pacheco’s allies do not spare praise for the senator saying that he was wise because he no longer fierce his relationship with Lira.
According to one leader, when confronted once on the subject, the miner even said that it would be more productive to work to stay in a cable of war with Deputy Alagoas.
