An amendment included last-minute to reduce the mandate of senators has caused discomfort and should slow the vote in PEC Plenary (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) which, governors and mayors.
The PEC was last week in a wide agreement around the end of reelection, but the change in the mandate of senators from ten years to five caused a huge reaction behind the scenes.
The opinion presented by the rapporteur, Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI), increased the mandate of the senators from current eight years to ten. The reduction was included by the opposition-which was mostly at the time-at the suggestion of the PL leader, Carlos Portinho (RJ), and Senator Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE).
The decrease motivated a chat described as a tense at the last leadership meeting on Thursday (22) between Portinho, Girão and MDB leader Eduardo Braga (AM).
People who were at the meeting say that Braga harshly criticized colleagues for the way the change was sponsored during the CCJ, without any prior discussion.
According to reports, Braga said there was an attack on senators, who had their rights reduced, while all other positions gained larger terms – four to five years after the transition period.
Parliamentarians who witnessed the disagreement say Portinho charged respect and said there was no prank. Girão, according to people who were present, replied that the Senate is appealing for other reasons.
Senators who criticize change see opportunism of the opposition around the subject. Research, Senate cardinals claim that the amendment has been included in the PEC in a electoral way since congressmen will be forced to expose itself in defense of something that already exists, a larger term.
In the evaluation of a leader who declined to be identified, the measure exposes the Senate because the population can understand as a privilege the existence of ten years or even eight years, as today.
During the discussion, Portinho claimed to be preferable a five -year term instead of ten for the alternation of power. The senator said he will have a term of about six years, by the end of the legislature, and realized that five years is enough.
“I’m going to play with the argument that many may be imagining, looking at their own belly button: ‘Ah, but it will be very good for me, from here … In the next, I’ll be ten years old.’ And if you lose?
He assumed one of the three vacancies of Rio de Janeiro in the Senate after, in October 2020, as a result of COVID-19. Portinho was the first holder of Arolde.
The discussion eventually taught around a five -year term for the Senate because, in addition to banning the election for executive positions, PEC unifies the general and municipal elections. Today, there is an election every two years, sometimes for president, governors, senators, federal and state deputies, sometimes for mayors and councilors.
The measure proposes a gradual and complex transition until 2039, when all mandates would last five years. The way to this standardization, however, includes a series of terms with variable durations (four, five, six, eight and nine years old), according to positions and election years.
Prior to the CCJ vote, Senate President, (-AP), warned colleagues that would include PEC on the Plenary’s agenda this week. With the division, parliamentarians claim that the president should wait for the discussion to cool.
Behind the scenes, senators take the return of the ten -year term, as Castro initially suggested. The larger mandate can be reinserted at PEC during the vote in the plenary including alcohubre initiative, according to parliamentarians along with the matter.
The text approved by the Commission needs to be voted in the Senate plenary in two shifts with at least 41 of the 81 votes. If it passes, the PEC must be processed in the House by the CCJ, special commission and then plenary. It takes the vote of at least 308 of the 513 deputies.
The possibility of reelection for occupants of executive positions was approved by Congress.
The legislation entered into force immediately, already applying to the subsequent claim. (PSDB), elected prior to the inclusion of this possibility in the Constitution.
