New Mayor, the deputy (-PB) decided to demand the presence of the deputies in plenary sessions on Wednesdays, from 4 pm to 8 pm, but chose to release that colleagues continue to vote by mobile after this time.
The determination for parliamentarians to be in plenary search to resume the deepest discussions and facilitate the negotiations of bills during sessions, which from the pandemic, with the permission for vote to occur virtually every day.
The change in routine was communicated by Motta in a meeting with party leaders on Wednesday (5). The sessions will be hybrid on Tuesdays (face-to-face registration and cell phone vote), face-to-face on Wednesdays (until 20h) and with a fully virtual presence and vote registration on Thursdays.
With this, in practice, it will be demanded that one is in plenary four hours a week to discuss and vote the bills.
In the management of the former president (PP-AL), the deputies needed to register in plenary to enable the House app, but they could vote by mobile from anywhere. The rule replaced the fully virtual votes, created in the pandemic due to the need for social detachment, but which ended after the parliamentarian.
In the words of a party leader, the time established by Motta “releases the night” of parliamentarians in Brasilia and the backstage articulations. Another century parliamentarian has justified that the goal is for the sessions to be closed by 20h and that the cell phone vote will occur so that the deputies can go out to dinner if the debates exceed this time.
For the deputy (União Brasil -SP), the return of face -to -face sessions will help the opposition because the fullest plenary gives more instruments of obstruction against government matters. “It is an advance regarding the loss of quality of the debate from the pandemic. But it is insufficient. If the vote is going late, it is precisely because the matter must be controversial and requires a more qualified debate,” he said.
Deputy Adriana Ventura (Novo-SP) said the new rules are positive, but they cannot be “for English to see.” “Will rites and deadlines be respected? PECS [propostas de emenda constitucional] e PLPs [projetos de lei complementar] Will it be 100% in person from beginning to end? Why did Wednesday after 20h released overall? “He asked.
Deputy Chico Alencar (PSOL-RJ) praised Motta for starting the sessions early at 4 pm, but said he did not understand the release for cell phone vote after 20h. “Four hours of discussion and deliberation are enough, in general, to vote on the articles. Exceeding this time and entering the nefarious ‘silent at night’ will be exception. But as an exception, the presence in plenary should be required,” he said.
Sought, Hugo Motta did not respond until the publication of this report.
