Congress enters lethargy with St. John and ‘Gilmarpalooza’ – 18/06/2025 – Power

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A and enter a period of lethargy from this Thursday (19) that should extend until the second week of July. In addition to the Corpus Christi holiday, some congressmen will participate in the festivities of St. John of their cities and others will go to “Gilmarpalooza” in Lisbon.

In this interval, the sessions should happen remotely and to deal with topics that deputies and senators have consensus – or be, without controversial votes or discussion of thorny affairs.

The exception must be the appreciation in the Senate of the bill which, of which the president of the house, (-AP), is guarantor.

Northeastern deputies and senators have asked (-PB), mayor, and Senate’s alcohubre that next week’s sessions are remote, so that they can attend St. John’s festivities in their electoral strongholds.

According to these congressmen, this is the moment when they have closer contact with their support bases. The heads of the two houses accepted.

Motta himself will take advantage of the holiday to participate in São João de Patos (306 km from João Pessoa), a city of his family, from 19 to 23 June. He should return to Brasilia next Tuesday (24) to follow events from the House. The sessions of Wednesday (25) and Thursday (26) will only have the virtual presence of the deputies.

Alcolumbre, in turn, must remain in Brasilia during this period, according to its communication advisory.

It must submit to the vote the project that increases from 513 to 531 the number of chairs in the chamber. The text aims to adapt the proportion of strength in the house between states according to the most up -to -date data of the 2022 census, (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).

The Senate President told the interlocutors that a decision of the deputies, who approved the bill, on a theme that directly affects them.

Alcolumbre needs to guide the project by June 30 to meet a determination of the Supreme Court (STF). Otherwise, the redistribution would be done by the (Superior Electoral Court).

The following week, from July 2-4, will take place, organized by IDP (Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research), which has the Supreme Minister Gilmar Mendes as founder and his son Francisco Mendes as leader.

Dozens of congressmen have already confirmed presence at the event, known as “Gilmarpalooza”, in reference to the Lollapalooza festival. This will imply another week of empty corridors in the House and Senate.

In the House, Motta was announced by the event as one of the speakers, as well as Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB) and Aliel Machado (PV-PR). Deputies estimate that more than 40 of them will be in the Portuguese capital for the Forum, including speakers, guests and spectators.

Alcolumbre told allies that it can also appear, but nothing has been announced so far. The senator’s communication advisory states that there is still no definition.

Senate leaders, such as Eduardo Gomes (PL-to) and Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), will integrate debate tables at the event, emptiness of the possibility of discussions of great repercussion during this period in the house.

Last year, Chamber and Senate disbursed at least $ 600,000 to play the trip of 30 congressmen to the Lisbon Forum, as shown.

In addition to congressmen, STF ministers (Alexandre de Moraes, André Mendonça, Dias Toffoli, Flávio Dino, Luís Roberto Barroso) and the Union Court of Auditors (Antonio Anastasia, Aroldo Cedraz, Benjamin Zymler, Bruno Dantas, Vital do Rêgo Filho) were announced as lecturers of the 13th edition of the meeting. Planning Minister Simone Tebet (MDB) and Attorney General Paulo Gonet also confirmed participation.

Ministers of the STJ (Superior Court of Justice), lawyers, entrepreneurs (such as, Chairman and senior partner of BTG Pactual, and, CEO of iFood), presidents of commissions and associations (such as Beto Simonetti, president of the OAB), among others, are also among the confirmed.

With the end of the event on July 4, a Friday, Chamber and Senate should resume relevant sessions on Tuesday (8). From then on, the deputies and senators will go into a concentrated effort until the beginning of the parliamentary recess, which begins on July 18.

(PT) congressmen tell the Sheet That this period without divisive discussions can be conducive to cooling the opposition’s spirits and making adjustments to the Federal Government’s relationship with the legislature.

The Planalto Palace suffered setbacks in the last sessions before the holiday. On Monday (16), the plenary approved project urgent project that overthrows by the Executive last week.

On Tuesday (17), the overthrow, and authorized the creation of CPMI (Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) to investigate fraud at the INSS (National Institute of Social Security).

The petista government intends to raise the pace of release of amendments in this period of slowness in Congress, aiming to relieve tensions with deputies and senators – the payment of this money in 2025 is the report of UOL, and has been the subject of frequent complaint among members of the legislature.

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