The decision of the Constitution and Justice Commission is not definitive; The text needs to go through the sieve of the House Plenary and have the support of 257 deputies
The Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) of approved, on Wednesday (7), for 44 votes to 18, an application to suspend the criminal proceedings against the Deputy (PL-RJ) in the Supreme Court (). The parliamentarian was denounced by the Attorney General’s Office () for involvement in an alleged attempted coup and became a defendant in the case by decision of the first class of the Court on March 26.
The CCJ decision is not definitive. The text needs to go through the sieve of the House Plenary, with the support of 257 deputies. The PL works with this action not only to paralyze the case against branch, but also against the former president (PL), defendant in the same criminal action for attempted coup.
On the day the document was sent to the Board of Directors, in April, the party leader at the House, Sostenes Cavalcante (PL-RJ), said that a possible suspension of the process would benefit all defendants of the criminal action. “This was the best news of the day for the defense of President Bolsonaro,” he said.
The PL claims that all alleged crimes imputed to branch were committed after his diplomation on December 19, 2022 the party used the scammers of 8 January. “Because the crime of armed criminal organization, which has a permanent nature, would have extended until January 2023, and the other imputed crimes would have occurred on January 8, 2023,” he said.
The acronym underlies the action on an excerpt from the Constitution – Article 53, paragraph 3 – which gives the House the power to interrupt the progress of a criminal action while the parliamentarian maintains his mandate. At Wednesday’s session, Ramagem stated that the accusations against him are based on a “fact narrative.” The parliamentarian repeated his lawyers’ defense thesis that there is no “reasonableness” in the complaint because he had just been elected federal deputy.
“Everyone knows that the backbone of this criminal action is about Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid’s award-winning collaboration. How many mentions in Mauro Cid’s denunciation were made in my name? None. None. Mauro Cid did not mention my name once. If I said, all the narrative of acts, facts, meetings, plans is there, I ask you, how part of the crucial core of a Attempted coup, this coup action, if there is no conduct of mine? ”Asked Ramage during a committee meeting.
He added, “How could I be dealing with a blow if I was focused on Rio de Janeiro dealing with a difficult election campaign in any state of the federation?” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s base even filed a request to postpone the vote on the grounds that the report “goes beyond” the limits of the Constitution by resolving “the progress of the criminal action contained in Petition No. 12.100, underway in the Supreme Court, in relation to all imputed crimes”, which, in theory, would extend to all defendants for the attempt of coup. The decision would benefit President Jair Bolsonaro.
Deputy Rubens Pereira Junior (PT-MA) argued that Article 53 is restricted to the possibility of sustaining the criminal action of deputies and senators. “The extrapolation, where it goes from the point, is when it says that the decision of the Legislative Power sustained the action in relation to the parliamentarian and the other corridors. This is not supported by the Constitution. Article 53, paragraph 3, listed at the beginning” received the deputy and senator complaint, “he said.
The thesis was also defended by Deputy Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ). According to the parliamentarian, the decision to suspend the action is unconstitutional. “Do you think the Supreme is worried? Of course not.”
“We are having the boldness to propose Bolsonaro’s criminal action. I understand the PL staff, I understand the class that they are a scholarship. They do not want this judgment to happen. They were defending here that amnesty, which is unconstitutional, which is absurd, because we are about to start a trial. But I confess my astonishment with the possibility of voting deputies of the center parties.
In reaction to the representation of the PL, Supreme Minister Cristiano Zanin sent a letter to the House in April to inform that the action in the first class that made branch defendant cannot be sustained in its entirety.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carol Santos
