Several civil society entities protested, in a note published on Wednesday (27), against two bills aimed at shielding parliamentarians. At least one of them should be voted on this Wednesday (27). The package makes it difficult for criminal investigations against parliamentarians without the legislature and can result
“The resumption of the processing of this proposal is a maneuver of political convenience stripped of any good intention,” says the note, signed by 17 institutions, including the Association know, the Check Democracy Institute and International Transparency Brazil.
Organizations say the proposal to withdraw from the Supreme Court (STF) the “judgment on authorities involved in the attacks on democracy, as the implicit reason: finally investigations into deviations with parliamentary amendments, they demonstrate a deep detachment of parliamentarians to the public interest.”
In the text, the entities also state that the advance of proposals would weaken the mechanisms of liability and the country’s ugly and counterweight system, also ignoring social demand for justice. Therefore, signatory institutions see democratic setback if the proposals are approved.
Forecast to be voted on the night of Wednesday (27) Na. The text makes criminal investigations difficult against congressional parliamentarians, in an attempt to reestablish the version, which ceased to exist in 2001.
At the moment, 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.
The proposal now also provides that congressmen can only be arrested in the act of unenforceable crimes. In addition, the Legislative House will decide whether the prison will be maintained or not.
In this sense, the application of precautionary measures, such as the installation of an electronic anklet, would only be possible after the decision of the majority of the plenary. He said that discussing the armage PEC is a House right.
“The Chamber has urgently given several guidelines of society, important sectors, economic guidelines. And discussing parliamentary prerogatives is also a priority,” he said. “It is a Congress right to discuss what it understands to be important for parliamentarians to have independence about their activities.”
The text is worked by Centrão’s deputies, but has gained support from the pocket opposition under the speech that this will make congressmen freer to act against the STF ministers. The proposal was discussed with fervor since the riot, held earlier this month by Bolsonarist parliamentarians, who occupied the House and prevented the president of the house from sitting in his armchair.
In parallel, another similar text is being claimed by the same group of deputies. This is the end of the end of the other proposal, it makes up the “armor package”. There is still no consensus on the voting date of this second text.
The text intends to take from the jurisdiction of the competence to judge parliamentarians for common crimes. According to Motta, there is understanding in the House that “some decisions have transgressed the limit of what to the parliamentarian is guaranteed”.
“This institutional instability we have lived has bothered parliamentarians,” he said. “And it is not retaliation to anyone. It is a measure that the legislature understands that it should discuss, at least within the Chamber, about this constitutional revision, about what is guaranteed to us,” he said.
On the other hand, the PT leader, (PT), said, in relation to the Armage PEC, that it is difficult to advance in a matter whose text is unknown. He also said that the party opposes the end of the forum.
