Deputy Evair Vieira de Melo (PP-ES), linked to opposition to the Government (PT), presented a project of resolution that alters the House’s Internal Regulations to allow a deputy to be able to exercise his mandate while abroad.
If approved, the measure may benefit the federal deputy (PL-SP), and has graduated from his term, alleging fear that the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) would send his passport. Since then, it’s in the United States.
The proposal presented by the PP deputy says that “exceptionally and by deliberation of the Board of Directors”, a deputy will be allowed to perform his parliamentary activities abroad.
The text provides that this authorization will be granted by the Board of Directors and for a determined period, “renewable by justification, how many times they are necessary”.
In justification, the deputy says that the bill “besides protecting the parliamentary mandate in exceptional contexts” also “avoids arbitrary interpretations that can be used as an instrument of political censorship, parliamentary exclusion or intimidation of opponents”.
According to the Chamber Regiment, Eduardo is entitled to a license for a private interest for 122 days, which obliges him to return to office on July 22. This deadline is not renewable, and the deputy can follow unjustified absences in up to a third of the sessions before losing his term.
To the panel, Evair Vieira de Melo says that “there is no jabuti” in his proposal and that he only proposes an update of the regiment, given the possibility of the remote vote, which was implemented during the Covid pandemic and is used to this day.
He denies that he has made the measure to benefit Eduardo and says he discussed the issue with his colleague only after firing the proposal. He acknowledges, however, that if approved, the former president’s son (PL) may benefit.
“The proposal makes the parliamentarian who had his votes to participate in the processes, the commissions, the daily life. And protects the parliamentarian. Today, it can give Eduardo this opportunity, but tomorrow can be any other parliamentary who, by different factors below his will, can exercise his mandate,” he says.
According to him, the leader of the opposition in the House, Zucco (PL-RS), is reaping signatures of deputies to submit an urgent request and accelerate the processing of the matter in the house. The theme should be taken to the mayor, (-PB), next Tuesday (10).
The proposal was criticized by governing leaders. PT leader in the House, Lindbergh Farias (RJ), says she is a “madness”, “unconstitutional” and “becomes a mockery with the Brazilian Parliament”.
“I am convinced that this proposal was made for Eduardo Bolsonaro. He is a criminal who, from outside the country, remains a systematic attack against the country and will be convicted of attacks on the Democratic Rule of Law. If the House approves this project, it will mean that the house deals with this criminal conduct,” says Lindbergh.
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