The governing bench at CPMI will resist the summons of José Ferreira da Silva, Lula’s older brother, using as an argument that members of the board of fraud unions in benefit discounts are not in the focus of the investigation.
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“The president of the union, yes, we can call, and then if we can call the vice. But the fact is that we are not calling all the directors of the unions,” says federal deputy Alencar Santana (PT-SP), full member of CPMI.
Another argument of the government’s allies is that Friar Chico cannot be summoned just for being the president’s brother. “It’s not parental investigation,” says Santana.
Commission governors should also focus on the committee’s rapporteur, “he has made statements in which he shows that he already has prior judgment. As a rapporteur he cannot do this, he compromises and contaminates the petista, says the petista.
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