The attempt to expand the PEC (proposal for amendment to the Constitution) of the armor with measures such as increasing the quorum for a complaint to be received against a parliamentarian divided the center, caused a chat in a meeting between the leaders of the parties and made even the rapporteur threatened not to sign the opinion in the face of divergences.
Disagreements in the meeting called by the mayor, (-PB), led to a postponement of the vote, which motorcycle and members of acronyms such as, and Republicans wanted to do the hurry on Wednesday night (27), even with the text still unknown to most congressmen.
The main idea was to resume a shield that existed for federal deputies and senators until 2001, which prevents criminally prosecuted as long as Congress itself is not authorized for the trial to occur. More than 200 inquiries were locked between the 1988 and 2001 Constitution, never being voted.
Deputy Lafayette Andrada (Republicans-MG) was appointed rapporteur to build a text that had sufficient support to be approved and began to negotiate with the parties and the opposition.
But at the meeting with the parties, a second version of the opinion came up, prepared by a group of Centrão deputies, who asked Motta to also be evaluated by the leaders. The draft was described by opposing deputies such as radical or exaggerated, and ended up drinking the support of most parties at the meeting.
Among the initiatives included in this second version was to increase the quorum for a complaint to be accepted by the Supreme Court (STF) and begin to process. Currently, a majority of the board is necessary (6 votes in the plenary and 3 votes in the class). With the change, it would take 4 of the 5 votes in the class or 8 of the 11 ministers in the Plenary.
The proposal would be to match the receipt of a criminal complaint against a deputy or senator, in the Supreme Court, to the quorum necessary for the Congress to authorize the President of the Republic to be prosecuted or the target of impeachment.
In addition, the newly disqualified text locked the current inquiries in progress until there was ahead of the legislature, allowing Congress to politically reject the arrest of a parliamentarian and to decide every 90 days if he should remain arrested-which could only occur in the face of act for nonsense crime.
The proposal gained support from the Centrão parties and also the opposition, but was questioned by the leftist deputies. They stated that the changes were absurd, extemporaneous and would be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which would only aggravate the crisis between powers and give ammunition to the pockets in facing the judiciary.
PDT leader Mario Heringer (MG) wondered whether the rapporteur agreed with the text or was apocryphal. Lafayette Andrada, who is a lawyer, replied, if that alternative text were taken to the vote, he would refuse to sign the report, as the proposals were not reasonable legally, according to five parliamentarians who attended the meeting. Wanted by the report, he did not comment.
Deputies are divided over whether the postponement will lead to a temporary filing of the proposal or if the theme will be discussed again next week. Even the left members say that the discussion of prerogatives, as not being processed by their words and discourses, is a sensitive and appeal in the plenary. The radical text, however, is considered buried and without majority.
PEC emerged as part of a negotiation led by former mayor Arthur Lira (PP-AL), PP leader Dr Luizinho Teixeira (RJ), and Deputy Elmar Nascimento (União Brasil-BA) to suspend the riots of the pockets, who prevented Motta from charging the sessions to charge the former president’s amnesty (PL).
Centrão’s intention is to also be shielded against investigations into budget parliamentary amendments, which already reach more than 80 STF surveys, said Minister Flávio Dino at lunch with congressmen.
After the fourth fustomed meeting, resistance to the proposal increased and made it more difficult to approve. The president of MDB, Deputy Baleia Rossi (SP), said on Thursday (28) being against the changes to shield parliamentarians and in the special forum. At the meeting with Motta, the party had indicated a favorable position to the rapporteur’s text.
Deputy Hildo Rocha (MA), MDB’s deputy leader in the House, said there is no consensus in the party, but the tendency is to close a question against PEC. “Preventing investigation does not exist. It’s something to have bandit there in the chamber, fill with the CCP and Red Command class,” he criticized.
He informed him at the meeting that he will vote against PEC, although part of his deputies may support her. A video was distributed to the party’s bench, saying the proposal “is inadmissible.” “This impossibility that the judiciary opens a lawsuit if it is not authorized, I am radically against,” he said.
If MDB and PSD join the leftist parties against PEC, approving the text will be much more difficult, in the evaluation of parliamentarians. Together, these parties would reach 214 deputies, which would make only 299 votes in other subtitles remain less than the 308 necessary. But the result is uncertain, even so, because there are disagreements within almost all parties.
Another reason for postponement, on Wednesday, was the lack of quorum for a controversial deliberation and late at night. When the session ended, more than 10 pm, only 469 of the 513 deputies had been present, which made it more complicated to reach 308 votes of approval.
Deputies also want to combine with senators the elaboration of a consensus text, which can be approved quickly between the two houses to prevent the delay from raising the tone of society’s criticism.
The non-vote by PEC adds to the series of setbacks for Motta, which decided to guide the text to Wednesday and stated in interviews that most of the house was favorable. In the morning, he had stated that discussing prerogatives was a congressional right and a priority, as it would bring more independence.
“It serves the spirit of the house. There are several parties, not only opposition parties or allied base, a feeling in the house that this parliamentary activity needs to be, I will not say better protected, but better sized from a legal point of view,” he said at an event promoted by Grupo Globo.
Some deputies criticize the president and they understood to be a flaw of articulation or at least communication, for leading to the discussion of leaders a different text than what had been agreed between benches and lafayette.
