Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski announced that the federal government reached consensus on the proposal for amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of public security and said the project is ready to be sent to the National Congress. Federal management will now hold meetings with the presidents of the House, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), and Senate, David Alcolumbre (Brazil-AP Union), to align when it will be the best time to send to Parliament.
The statements took place on Thursday, 13, after meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Planalto Palace. Among those present were also the Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, and members of the technical area.
“There was the consensus of all present that, after a broad discussion of this PEC, not only with the governors, but with civil society and also with the academy itself, it would be mature to be sent to Congress,” Lewandowski told journalists, saying it was the last meeting of the government’s summit to address the content of the text. “This PEC intends, in general, to create a SUS of public safety,” he said.
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He stated that the text did not change compared to the one presented in late February. At the time, the content of the project was expanded to include the municipal guards among the public security bodies provided for in article 144 of the Federal Constitution. Inclusion formalizes the role of these corporations in ostensive and community policing, recognized by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) in the same month. The thesis defines that municipal guards can perform urban security actions, provided they do not carry out criminal investigation activities.
According to the new text, the Municipal Corporation must act in an integrated manner with the Civil and Military Police, without performing functions of Judicial Police – which was determined by the Court. PEC highlights the need for regulation through municipal legislation and the supervision by the Public Prosecution Service. Lewandowski stated that municipal guards will do urban, ostensible and community policing.
According to the chief of the portfolio, the text will be sent “timely” to Congress. Gleisi attended the press conference after the meeting and said he intends to meet with Motta, alcohubre and base leaders to align when the PEC is sent. If you find it necessary, you will also make a meeting with leaders who do not make up the base to align shipping. Given this, the best time to send PEC will be evaluated. Lewandowski said the project fits the government’s priorities in parliament.
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In the midst of resistance in relation to the text, Gleisi pondered that there is normal to have disagreements. “It is obvious that you never have consensus and as President Lula says, whenever a project enters the National Congress, the probability of him changed is great,” he said.
“I think we will have a climate in Congress conducive to it,” said the head of the political articulation. Asked if the sending of the PEC and the bill that proposes exemption from income tax to those who earn up to $ 5,000 can compete with each other in Parliament, Gleisi stated that projects “are not competitors in terms of priority, because they are very different areas”.
As the political broadcast showed, the federal government summit evaluates that PEC should not be approved in Congress and already faces the presentation of the text almost as a gesture to the electorate concerned with urban violence. It is one of the favorite topics of the right-wing political forces, opposing Lula, and a field in which the left has been difficult for decades to compete for the electorate. Therefore, at least sending Congress a proposal on public safety may be relevant to the public opinion dispute.
