The semi-presentialism was once again the agenda in the three powers after the deputies Luiz Carlos Hauly (Somos-PR) and Lafayette Andrada (Republicans-MG) filed a proposal for amendment to the Constitution (PEC) on the subject last Thursday. (6).
In the semipresidencialist model, there is a division of powers. The President of the Republic acts as a “head of state” and divides power with a prime minister, who would be a “head of government” chosen by the National Congress.
A, which made sympathy to the government model. Another 181 parliamentarians were also favorable and signed the PEC.
In justifying the proposal, the authors argue that the new system will prevent an institutional crisis from involving the President of the Republic, Brazil faces the “prolonged and uncertain institutional crises that preceded the falls of [Fernando] Collor and Dilma [Rousseff] And they end up affecting the entire Brazilian economic framework. ”
“The great advantage is that the head of government has no fixed mandate. If it’s good, it is. If it’s bad, change and change without trauma, without impeachment, ”Lafayette de Andrada told CNN.
Hauly said in an interview with CNN than to pe.
“We are not moving the presidential structure, simply improving Brazilian presidentialism to make it more modern, more feasible, more efficiently in governance,” said the parliamentarian.
To begin to be analyzed, the project depends on the return of the commissions in the House and the new summit of the first collegiate for which it will process :.
So far, no House Permanent Commission has been working again. The perspective is that the collegiate will only return to activities after Carnival in March.
Debate stopped from 2022
However, .
Throughout 2024, government leaders and oppositionists gave the theme as “buried.”
The last time the theme was seriously dealt with by federal deputies had been in October 2022, when a working group created to discuss it approved a opinion, with the proposal of a plebiscite on the subject.
The group had been created in March of that year to discuss the semipresidencialist alternative, in the face of recent crises in Brazilian politics. The idea of the then mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), was eventually proposing a change to semi-presidentialism in 2030, without affecting the 2024 election, nor that of 2026.
After a series of discussions and consultations with jurists, the rapporteur of the group, then deputy Samuel Moreira (PSDB-SP), classified the adoption of semi-presentialism as “an imperative need in the country”.
Gilmar says what theme needs to be discussed
Supreme Federal Court Minister Gilmar Mendes said on January 23 ,.
“There are institutional reforms that also need to be discussed. Michel [Temer]others discussed in Brazil, a little back there, and we even formulated a semi -presential project. […] It is a theme that is certainly already on the 2025 agenda and which we will have to look at, ”he said during a business forum in Switzerland.
According to the minister, Brazil’s current model – presidentialism – needs adjustments. Gilmar cited the situation of parliamentary amendments as one of the problems resulting from this system and said parliamentarians perform the funds “without any responsibility.”
Lula and Bolsonaro are critical to the system
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) and former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The PT did not signed the request to submit the proposal. , especially in the midst of a presidential term with great chances of disputing reelection.
The PL supported the proposal with 33 signatures. The party bench is made up of 92 federal deputies in office.
In the past, Bolsonaro even called the proposal of the semi -presentialism “bullshit” and “idiot”.
Fear is in favor
On the other hand, former President Michel Temer (MDB) is one of the main advocates of the proposal.
He has already argued that if the proposal is approved, it is implemented only in 2030, not to harm the current representative of the Plateau.
“Fear of the sovereignty of the people,” says Gleisi
For the national president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann, the PEC of semi -presentialism is.
“Who has a semi -president, has no president at all. It is very afraid of the sovereignty of the people or a desire to govern the country without having to win in the vote, ”he published on social networks.
For the petista, the proposal “aims to take, from the majority of the population, the right to elect a president with actually powers to rule.”
Hugo says he does not intend to guide urgently
Already the mayor.
“There is interest in the house, and among the parties, in discussing the theme. We also have no commitment to guide urgently. On the contrary, discussing Brazil’s political system is always positive to seek more efficiency, expand popular participation and ensure a government with more results to the population, ”said Hugo on February 7.
