The deputy (-PB) was able to return to the chairman of the Chamber at 10:21 pm on Wednesday (6), after one mediated by his predecessor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL).
Motta left his office, which is next to the plenary, and took more than six minutes to cross the sea of Bolsonarist deputies who, around 1 pm, in protest against that of the former president (PL).
He even walked back to the cabinet after arriving near the chair and she was not provided by Deputy Marcel Van Hattem (RS), leader of the new. After much conversation and push-pushing, he was practically dragged back to the chair by Deputy Isnaldo Bulhões Jr. (AL), leader of the MDB bench, and opened the plenary session.
PL leader, Sostenes Cavalcante (RJ), said after the session that the opposition was committed that the amnesty of the accused of coup and the end of the privileged forum will be brought to the vote ,. According to Bolsonarist deputies, leaders of other parties, such as PP and União Brasil, agreed to guide the article.
Government deputies, however, claim that all this imbroglio, since there was consensus among leaders of at least 17 parties that the plenary should be resumed and that proposals would not be discussed under blackmail.
Both Motta and the President of, (-AP), spent the day in a meeting with OE with the other parties in the attempt to agree to vacate the voting plenary, but until 20h the understanding had not been reached.
The meetings were held at the official residences of the presidents of the Chamber and the Senate, in Lake Sul, noble region of Brasilia.
Motta announced that he would open the voting session in the house plenary at 8:30 pm, but the negotiations stuck. but in the end, he adopted a conciliatory tone to strengthen parliament and the ability to dialogue.
When he managed to open the session, between shouts of “Amnesty already” and “without amnesty”, Motta spoke for about ten minutes and then ended the session.
The president stated that his presence was to ensure “the respectability of this table, which is unenforceable” and that “the house can strengthen”. “I will always fight for the free exercise of the mandate,” he amended.
Not to mention Bolsonaro’s arrest decreed by the minister of (Supreme Federal Court), Motta said we are not living normal times. Earlier, Centrão party leaders expressed disagreement with the measure.
“We had one that brought us to this feeling of boiling. Is it common? No? We are living normal times? Nor. But that’s precisely at this time that we cannot negotiate our democracy and the greatest feeling of this house, which is our ability to dialogue, make the necessary confrontations and let the most be established,” he said.
In mentioning that the country is experiencing an institutional crisis and even one, Motta said that in the House “the buildings of these solutions to our country, which must always be first.” “And not let individual projects be ahead of what is bigger than all of us, which is our people.”
He avoided taking sides in the dispute, but was more applauded by the governors than by the opposition. “I’m not here to please any of the poles, to be conniving with any of the agendas,” he said.
He also stated that the opposition has every right to manifest itself, but this has to be done obeying the regiment and the Constitution. “Which was not good, it was not consistent with our history. […] What happened yesterday and today can not be greater than the plenary, “he added.
The opening of the session was marked by chat, tension, movement of the legislative police and doubt about the use of strength for the resumption of the table. He even took his four -month -old daughter to the plenary, and the leader of (RJ) said the party would trigger the Guardianship Council.
A, the opposition and part of the centrão intend to rescue the legislature’s prerogative to authorize the opening of an inquiry against parliamentarians. The practice was abandoned in 2001 due to the wear and tear by the broad history of impunity of deputies and senators suspected of irregularities.
Until that year, prior authorization from the Legislature was required for federal deputies and senators to be investigated and prosecuted for common crimes by the Federal Supreme Court. This is no longer valid with the constitutional amendment 35.
Opposition parliamentarians, preventing sessions. In a relay scheme, they, who was isolated by the Legislative Police, with permission to enter only parliamentarians.
In addition to the amnesty to those convicted of the acts of January 8, 2023, and the return of the eligibility of Bolsonaro, AEA approval of projects that represent striking to the performance of the mainly STF, in relation to investigation and processes against parliamentarians.
