The Minister of Communications, decided to resign from office on Tuesday (8), (Attorney General’s Office), under. Juscelino is a licensed federal deputy, elected by Maranhão.
The decision, made by him in conversation with members of his party, was announced to allies this afternoon. The president himself had already stated last year, when the minister was indicted by the Federal Police ,.
Ministers of the Government were talking about an expectation that Juscelino took the initiative to leave office to defend himself in the exercise of the mandate of federal deputy. Interlocutors of the President of the Republic also said that the movement to leave office, starting from Juscelino, frees the petista of embarrassment.
The minister’s departure was also expected by members of the Chamber of Deputies summit and even by the politician’s allies.
Nevertheless, government members and allies of the minister said that this movement would have to be done in a awake manner to avoid any noise in the Executive’s relationship with União Brasil. The party has the third largest bench in the House (with 59 deputies), as well as 7 senators, one of them being the current president of the Senate, David Alcolumbre (AP).
There is an expectation between Lula interlocutors and parliamentarians that Juscelino’s departure can unlock a new stage of the petista’s ministerial reform.
This Tuesday (8), Juscelino was reported to the Supreme Court (STF) by PGR. The process is under the minister’s rapporteur and runs under confidentiality. It will be up to the Supreme to decide whether to accept the complaint and if he becomes a defendant. It is PGR’s first complaint against Lula government member.
After the complaint of the PGR, who is innocent and states that the offer of the complaint does not imply guilt and does not “may serve as an instrument for the MP [Ministério Público] guide the country “.
The president of União Brasil, Antonio Rueda, issued a statement to the press reiterating the party’s support to Juscelino and saying that the acronym “remains with the minister”. “We continue to trust the seriousness and competence of Minister Juscelino Filho, who has been doing his work at the head of the Ministry of Communications with commitment and concrete results for the Brazilian population,” says the note.
Juscelino was indicted by PF on June 12 last year on suspicion of participating in criminal organization, money laundering, passive corruption, ideological falsehood and bid fraud.
The PF concluded that Juscelino joined a criminal organization that diverted resources from paving works funded with public money from Federal State Codevasf.
The suspicions involve irregularities in works carried out in Vitorino Freire (MA), a city that was governed by Luanna Rezende, the minister’s sister, and benches by parliamentary amendments indicated by Lula’s minister during the period he exercised the mandate of federal deputy.
One of the elements used by the PF is a report by the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) about one of the works benefiting from the minister’s family properties.
The investigation began to investigate them suspicions of deviations in works of Codevasf, especially those carried out by the company Construservice, whose hidden partner, points to PF, is the businessman Eduardo José Barros Costa, known as Eduardo DP.
