The attempt to approve, on Wednesday (27), or prerogatives ended up frustrated, with several parties disagreeing totally or in part with the text presented by rapporteur Lafayette de Andrada (-MG).
The proposal against federal deputies and senators without the endorsement of Congress and imposes rules for the arrest of parliamentarians. In the opinion of supporters, the PEC would strengthen the legislature before the Federal Supreme Court, but the measure impairs transparency and.
On the morning of Wednesday, the mayor, (Republicans-PB), said that the. “It is a Congress right to discuss what it understands to be important for parliamentarians to have independence about their activities.”
the matter faced opposition from leftist parties. The PL bench, the party of the former president, defendant accused of coup, was pressured by a text that suspended even ongoing actions in the Supreme Court, a point that had resistance from the others.
To be approved, PEC would require 308 favorable votes, which is equivalent to three fifths of deputies, in a two -shift vote. According to party leaders, there would be not enough votes, which stacked the vote. Then the PEC would still have to go through the Senate.
The text of the proposal was kept confidential until times before it would be voted. At about 7:30 pm, party leaders were called to the mayor’s residence to discuss the details. There were two sketches under evaluation, and finally the meeting ended without a closed text.
According to deputies present at the meeting, the meeting was tense, and Motta decided to postpone the vote until at least next week. The president of the house even argued that the approval of the PEC would unlock the agenda for other measures, which is the interest of the governors, but there was no consensus.
In the House, the plenary emptied from 20h, and the idea was to vote remotely. In theory, the PEC vote requires a five -session interval between each shift, but the deputies intended to run over this rite and pass the text in both shifts tonight.
Upon leaving Motta’s residence, the leader of, (RJ), said “breathing relieved because he gained time.”
“We don’t think it is correct to have some kind of authorization to investigate deputies. There are many controversies, such as suspending inquiries. So the confusion was large on these points. […] The changes were very large. The deputy is a citizen like any other, “he said.
According to Motta’s allies, there was an internal demand for him to gesture to the house. In interviews, he himself with what they considered exaggerations on the part of the judiciary and said that the Supreme “ends up deciding on almost everything in the country.”
This Wednesday, Motta stated, during Grupo Globo event, which had the support of several parties. He said that some decisions of the judiciary have “transgressed the limit of what to the parliamentarian is guaranteed,” but denied that PEC is a “retaliation to anyone.”
The PEC restricts transparency by determining that the voting in Congress to endorse investigations and arrests of parliamentarians must be secret – the arrest in the act must be analyzed in plenary, but there is no requirement for secret vote.
Other points also surprised deputies, such as the possibility of suspending inquiries and processes in progress in the STF – which was defended by the condition to support approval.
Bolsonaro’s allies have been trying to guide measures that deliver the former president of the Supreme Court, such as the Armage PEC, the End of the Special Forum and the Amnesty.
The core of the proposal is to resume the original text of the 1988 Constitution, which provided for the need for prior authorization from the legislature to be prosecuted and judged by common crimes.
This and since then the legislature may suspend surveys if there is political use, but no endorsement is required for investigations. The change occurred by decision of Congress itself, after pressure from society, as the House and Senate kept shelved the requests for investigation.
PEC also specifies the situations in which parliamentarians can be arrested in the act, limiting them to unenforceable crimes such as racism, heinous crimes, torture, drug trafficking, terrorism and actions against the constitutional order.
The purpose of the Centrão deputies is if. The text has also gained support from the pocket opposition under the speech that will make congressmen freer to act against the STF ministers.
The Armage PEC was proposed in 2021, shortly after the arrest of the then federal deputy Daniel Silveira, by determination of the Supreme Court, after the pocketist published attacks on the court ministers and defend AI-5. The prison. The proposal, however, was stopped until Motta designated Lafayette as rapporteur last week.
